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Beautiful Code Interview

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the painting-with-text dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Safari Books Online has just posted an interview with Andy Oram and Greg Wilson, the two editors who put together the recent O'Reilly book, Beautiful Code. "Beautiful Code" features 33 different case studies about challenging coding scenarios from some of today's most high-profile developers and OS project leaders. There's also a new Beautiful Code web site based on the book where many of the authors are blogging about their work and coding practices."

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  1. Re:Nothing to see here by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    "If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." -- forgot who said it.

    --
    My blog
  2. Re:Nothing to see here by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny

    If it's any consolation, you did get the coveted first typo.

    --
    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  3. This just reminds me of my friend. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    His introduction to C++ teacher told him throughout the class that his code was not "pretty" because he wasn't properly commenting. The code always worked flawlessly, but still she marked "-1 code not pretty"
    On the final project he spent a good portion of time properly commenting all of his code and ended with a commented ascii flower and the following:

    //Look at my flower,
    //my pretty pretty flower.
    //Now my code is pretty

    He was marked off "-1 Sarcasm not appreciated"

  4. The problem with the book... by BlueBoxSW.com · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone else have laugh when they looked at the cover of the book?

    A Flock of Birds?

    To symbolize beautiful code?

    Flock-of-Birds-style code is the UGLIEST code out there!

    Used only by those who haven't learned to use case statements, build databases, or define arrays.

    Is this beautiful code???

    if(something==interesting)
        if(somethingelse==goodcode)
            if(somethingother==blahblahblah)
                if(somestupidbookcover=birds)
                    doSomethingUseful();
                else
            else
        else
    else
        if(somethingelse==goodcode)
            if(somethingother==blahblahblah)
                if(somestupidbookcover=birds)
                    doSomethingUseful();
                else
            else
        else
    end if

  5. Re:Have to say... by Anonymous+Crowhead · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have yet to see a really good example other than my own.

    I, too, am the only one I know who writes decent code.

  6. Beware the raptors ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://xkcd.com/292/

    That is all.