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Fascinating statement: Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especiall
by Tycho 16y ago
Fascinating statement:
Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.
- fnl 16y agoA bit wired but its really a fun read that many years later - although the truth is, his reasons for the swap in the end were probably the same as mine (although even later, because my team then wasn't using Python). And I still think Python beats any other in syntactic beauty by simplicity. Although Lua is a nice solution, too - I just don't like the end.