most software is large, slow, complicated and bug-ridden.
this makes small, fast, clean software written by competent programmers "beautiful".
taste varies. what is too terse and "obfuscated" to some is pleasingly succinct and manageable to others.
right now there's another post about yann lecun on the front page. he once wrote a lisp-like interpreter that compiles to C called "lush". of all the lisps i have tried i think it's one of the more "beautiful" ones in it's design.
1. a. whitney 2. ioccc.org winners (djb, etc.)
what makes [some] software beautiful?
the ugliness of other software.
most software is large, slow, complicated and bug-ridden.
this makes small, fast, clean software written by competent programmers "beautiful".
taste varies. what is too terse and "obfuscated" to some is pleasingly succinct and manageable to others.
right now there's another post about yann lecun on the front page. he once wrote a lisp-like interpreter that compiles to C called "lush". of all the lisps i have tried i think it's one of the more "beautiful" ones in it's design.