Re: Term for elegant, efficient, tight code?

Subject: Re: Term for elegant, efficient, tight code?
From: dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 11:18:00 -0700


(Eric, please let me know if this is the thread you feel has gotten off-track.)

Michael West wrote:
>
> Doc didn't say they were sufficient -- he said they were necessary.

Maybe it's a question of interpretation.

He said:

...successful compilation, successful operation, and
efficiency are required for code or any other solution
to be considered "elegant".

I took that to mean "These are the requirements for elegant code. If it meets these requirements, it's elegant."

I didn't think of it in terms of Aristotelian logic.

>
> Whether something is or isn't a "given" is something that
> requires logical argument, not just bald assertion.

<Sigh>

The original question was about a term that might describe code that is elegant, efficient, and tight.

At some point, we got into the definitions of the terms, and I commented on their usage by the CS professors and professionals I've known, among whom compilation and operation of a solution are assumed: they wouldn't even be considering code that wouldn't compile or that didn't work correctly.

--David

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