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online posts and comments on aesthetics of code
- beautiful code according to https://zinascii.com/2020/goodbye-joyent.html - https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/2428aad8462660fad2b105777063fea6f4192308
- beautiful code exists: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1454458
- stackexchange answer on “what is beautiful code” - https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/49189/writing-discussions-about-the-aesthetics-of-code
- hamon: beautiful code and japanese swordmaking - http://www.deadprogrammer.com/hamon-or-the-skin-deep-beauty-of-code
- literate programming resources (after knuth, lots of snippets from different authors) - http://www.literateprogramming.com/
- stackexchange answer on explaining beautiful code ot non-programmers - https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/65216/how-can-you-explain-beautiful-code-to-a-non-programmer
- quora question on “what makes beautiful code” all quora questions are in the webrecorder- https://www.quora.com/What-makes-some-code-beautiful
- data scientist on general description of beautiful source code - https://towardsdatascience.com/beautiful-code-ad8a0c6b19
- IT manager on general description of beautiful source code - https://medium.com/swlh/excellent-code-clean-and-beautiful-code-b541ca4b5a39
- 15 ways to make code more beautiful from devops perspective - https://dzone.com/articles/15-ways-to-write-beautiful-code
- review of Beautiful Code (justly) complaining about lack of beauty and familiarity in most of the authors examples (the comments are a good resource) - https://blog.codinghorror.com/code-isnt-beautiful/
- style is substance, by ken arnold (selected by joel spolsky for his book) - https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=74230
- rob martin (clean code) publishes the programmer’s oath (related to craftsmanship) - https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2015/11/18/TheProgrammersOath.html
- reality of writing software, with anecdote about MS source code - http://damienkatz.net/2005/01/formula-engine-rewrite.html
- does beautiful code matter? medium post wit sc examples - https://blog.prismatik.com.au/does-beautiful-code-matter-281934ed7363
- medium post as lit review of good code - https://developerzen.com/how-do-you-define-good-code-c8a383c207a4
- python code style - https://docs.python-guide.org/writing/style/
- overview of clean code (the book) - https://www.butterfly.com.au/blog/website-development/clean-high-quality-code-a-guide-on-how-to-become-a-better-programmer
- the rails doctrine, with best practices and paradigms and beautiful code - https://rubyonrails.org/doctrine/
- same thing but for python (PEP8) style guide - https://realpython.com/python-pep8/
- learning and finding out the beauty of cobol - https://devops.com/the-beauty-of-the-cobol-programming-language-v2/
- the beauty of doom’s source code - https://kotaku.com/the-exceptional-beauty-of-doom-3s-source-code-5975610
- more detailed version - http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/index.php
- princeton’s guide to writing clear code - https://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/java/11style/
- freecodecamp opinion on writing comments in code - https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/code-comments-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-be9cc65fbf83/
- review of “beautiful code” - https://blog.eisele.net/2011/01/review-beautiful-code-leading.html
- testimony on why someone loves to code (re: psychology of programming) - https://www.regpacks.com/blog/5-reasons-im-passionate-coding-whats-passion/
- clean code in angular - https://itnext.io/clean-code-checklist-in-angular-%EF%B8%8F-10d4db877f74
- best comments in source code from stackoverflow - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-comment-in-source-code-you-have-ever-encountered
- interview with one of the authors included in beautiful code - https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-secret-to-creating-pretty-code/
- personal account of coding - http://letsblogalot.blogspot.com/2014/01/code-code-beautiful-code.html
- javascript specific clean code - https://blog.risingstack.com/javascript-clean-coding-best-practices-node-js-at-scale/
- summary of clean code - https://cvuorinen.net/2014/04/what-is-clean-code-and-why-should-you-care/
- personal take on the aesthetics of code - http://theorangeduck.com/page/aesthetics-code
- stackoverflow: do you care about the aesthetics of your code? - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1079645/are-you-concerned-about-the-aesthetics-of-your-code
- art of readable code (book), chap. 4 - https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-art-of/9781449318482/ch04.html
- sql aesthetics - https://sql.marcus-belz.de/?p=143
- interesting personal post on aesthetics, understanding and familiarity in code - https://avraam.dev/posts/greek-to-me/
- medium post on clean code - https://medium.com/@raihansyah.dean/clean-code-aesthetics-of-coding-6ff207f08771
- refactoring and aesthetics - https://www.sitepoint.com/cleaning-up-code-is-refactoring-for-aesthetics-worth-it/
- discussion on improving the aesthetics of perl code - https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=423968
- perl user-generated style-guide - https://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=126697&cid=10598210
- personal account of beautiful code - http://hennessy.iat.sfu.ca/wp/stc2018/2018/03/22/programming-esthetics/
“why is it hard to write clean code?”
codebases
programming languages
poems
peripheral
- code city - metaphor for source code
- ching - example of creative man page
- perl poetry mode - assumptions that a word is going to define a subroutine eventually
- perl::bleach - turns perl source code into whitespace code
others/misc