On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 01:34:30PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
Depends on what you define as elegant.
when I was learning to program (mid 80's), we considered anything
outside of brute force to be elegant. Also, anything non-obvious was
also considered elegant. Anything that used a side-effect was NOT
considered elegant because you couldn't tell from reading the code
what it was actually doing (one reason I struggle with C).
The idea was to be short, sweet, not-brute-forced, and caused one to
say "ah ha!" after a couple read throughs.
A