I remember reading years ago an article [1] on "Communications of the ACM" that explained why hwpmc's code [2] is an example of beautiful code. The article had

I remember reading years ago an article [1] on "Communications of the ACM" that explained why hwpmc's code [2] is an example of beautiful code. The article had a great influence on me; I recommend reading it. [1] http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2008/7/5379-kode-vicious-beautiful-code-exists-if-you-know-where-to-look/fulltext http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2008/7/5379-kode-vicious-beaut... [2] http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/dev/hwpmc/ http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/dev/hwpmc/