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Code CAN Be Beautiful

  • February 22nd, 2008
  • Posted in Literature & Language . Software Engineering

In his review of Code Is Beautiful, Jeff Atwood decides that no, actually it isn’t. He’s fairly adamant about it too: Ideas are beautiful. Algorithms are beautiful. Well executed ideas and algorithms are even more beautiful. But the code itself is not beautiful. The beauty of code lies in the architecture, the ideas, the grander algorithms [ READ MORE ]

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