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The code for MRI is.. idiomatic, but actually pretty easy to read. I last did C full time in the 90s and so am mostly just a 'reader' now but it's not hard to follow, although some of the reasoning behind doing things a certain way in MRI is unfathomable.. ;-)

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Exactly, Peter. It's not tremendously hard to read the C code and understand what it is doing (usually), if you're familiar with C syntax. But it was tremendously difficult at times understanding _why_ it was doing what it was doing.

I don't understand the wording of your first sentence. Did you mean "idiotic" or?

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=define%3Aidiom

Yes, thanks. I know what idiomatic means, but the OP either does not or just wrote an awkward sentence.

Pat probably meant 'idiosyncratic' instead of 'idiomatic' (unless it's a non-idiomatic use of 'idiomatic').

'Idiosyncratic' is clearer, though 'idiomatic' is valid and what I wished to say, but in its secondary definition: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/idiomatic (see def 2)

Oh, OK. I've never seen "idiomatic" used with a negative connotation before.

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