Subject: Re: OT: Call for Nominations -- Most Beautiful Piece of Code
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:00:55 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <J-CdnaeNHuKaH4TUnZ2dnUVZ_uKdnZ2d@speakeasy.net>
Patrick Stein  <pat@csh.rit.edu> wrote:
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| But, I want to know if you have seen any specimens which:
|      * manifestly beautiful,
...
|      * under four hundred lines (including comments and vertical
|        whitespace);
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Unless you're restricting your search to toy examples only,
those two constraints are likely to be self-contradictory.
At the very least, it will deprive your search of many truly
magnificent instances of beautiful code. IMHO. YMMV.


-Rob

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