So I disagree with `always follows` since guidelines are not absolutes but instead strong suggestions. Some guidelines can not be reasonably followed 100% of the time and must be broken. Also two sequential sentences starting with the same phrase (e.g., "Excellent code" is about as smelly as two sequently function definitions where the first 5 lines of each do the same thing). Perhaps the second sentence (without losing meaning) could be rewritten as:

> Well written code concisely expresses the intent of its author to the reader.

Think about it, code has no intent. The author of the code, however, did have intent when writing that code.