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
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