I'm not making either of those arguments. I'm not even using IOCCC as a pejorative association. The comment you're responding to explicitly compares IOCCC code to poetry and Lewis Carroll. One thing I am saying is that most code isn't written for those kinds of purposes. I can't imagine that's a controversial statement though.

I'm open to suggestions on how to clarify things as you're the second comment to misunderstand it and I'm not sure how to better explain it.