This is of course subject to personal preference, but the things that come to my mind first are along the lines of:

• as simple as possible but not simpler
• smartly done (far from brute force)
• clean, clear, unadulterated
• distilled, with a hint of smokey peat... (perhaps I'm getting off track)

I certainly am a fan of readable code, but there should also be as few comments as possible, just enough to fill in the odd question that might arise in a reader's head as they are following the flow. Extra comments are fine if one is writing code to teach, but in practice I don't think it helps to write code on the assumption that later readers will be newbies. To be clear about this, I consider comments different from documentation which should be at the start of a routine, explaining the input, output, and general algorithm. I may be pushing it here, but I sometimes feel like every comment in-line is a blight, moving the work further from elegant with each line.

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I'd like to be able to assign to an luser