
Re: Very thoughtfull opinion, with only two fatal flaws
A Gandalf level C wizard will have progressed beyond the stage of "It's cool that I know C so well I can condense 20 lines of code into a single unintelligible line that takes a maintainer a day to attempt to unpack".
Maintainability and readability are fundamental to good code. If this is not reflected in your code then you aren't a good programmer let alone a wizard.
See also: "Not documented, not done"