I kinda dislike the premise of your question, but https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Code-Leading-Programmers-Practice/dp/0596510047 https://www.amazon.com/Beauti

I kinda dislike the premise of your question, but https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Code-Leading-Programmers-Practice/dp/0596510047 https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Code-Leading-Programmers-Pr... has some good candidates. Chapter 1 for example is a regular expression matcher that appeared on HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32589311 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32589311