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Ask HN: What is the most beautiful code you've ever seen?
- 90s_dev 2y agoFor me it's Lua. Everything from implementation to design. The perfect example of maximal orthogonality.
- theGeatZhopa 2y agodonald knuth introduced the "literal programming". This paradigm, having documentation and code in one, make the code readable like a book. Also, one needs to put more thoughts into code structure, making the code not only readable, but also "good layouted" with clear separations of documentation and the code.
- wonger_ 2y agoSome would say this Lisp interpreter written in Lisp: https://youtu.be/OyfBQmvr2Hc https://youtu.be/OyfBQmvr2Hc
- WorldPeas 2y agothere was something posted on here ages ago, a web clock whose code self-altered to change what it looked like. I wish I could find it.