@neauoire there is a kind of theoretical elegance to it. it is kind of a paraphrase of kolmogorov's definition of complexity -- the main difference being that, for kolmogorov, it's any language. it is a measure of information content. (it is also not computable, but it can be approximated). so, I read this ias Chaintin saying that "elegant" means "containing only information, no redundancy, to the extent possible in some language". You could relax this further and insist on meaningful names.