Code beauty
Posted by Jorge Bernal October 03, 2006
Ben Hammersley about code beauty on his talk “Eames, Bach, Michelangelo, and the DOM”
If it’s not beautiful, it’s probably wrong
You can watch the rest of “Fundamentos Web 2006” talks at Fundamentos Web 2006 en directo. Talks are in English.
Check the schedule if you are interested. Notice that all times are GMT+2

Bullcrap. Compare Hoare’s quicksort to the original quicksort. The former can be argued to be uglier than the latter, but that hardly makes it wrong. Please. This is how Smolin/Woit argue against string theory: it ain’t right just cos it’s beautiful.