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I would say that not many actual implementations of software turn out to be beautiful, assuming it is above a certain threshold of complexity and it is meant fo
by CoryG89 11y ago
I would say that not many actual implementations of software turn out to be beautiful, assuming it is above a certain threshold of complexity and it is meant for production use.
On the other hand, the ideas, algorithms, or the protocols on which software is based often seem beautiful, elegant, or brilliant, at least to me.
A few examples I can think of are: Google PageRank algorithm, Bitcoin's protocol and the block chain, the TCP network protocol, the BitTorrent protocol, Dijkstra’s algorithm, etc.
- CephalopodMD 11y ago> tcp protocol I respectfully disagree. Many of the elements of tcp are very complicated, and more or less of a hack. Compose them all together, and it's a hugely complex and arguably ugly (if utilitarian) standard.
- supdog 11y agoIndeed. No Starch Press's book on TCP/IP by Kozierok is 1600 pages! RINA is a beautiful new redesign of the networking stack wherein "computer networking is just inter-process communication." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_InterNetwork_Architecture_(RINA) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_InterNetwork_Archi...