I completely agree. And there are definitely some programmers whose code and prose are both eloquent and beautiful:

https://norvig.com/sudoku.html

This is my all time favorite programming book, both for the prose and the code within it:

https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp

Interestingly, I find that the set of Lisp programmers also contains many of the best writers about programming: Norvig, Graham, Stallman, McCarthy, Steele, Abelson, Sussman, etc.