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Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))
from O'Reilly Media, Inc.

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• Illustrated

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Uneven, Uninteresting
  There's a critical need for a book on code aesthetics, elegance and comprehensibility that goes beyond simple style guidelines -- this isn't that book. The contributions are uneven, a few border on the incomprehensible, and most are simply not worth the time. There are no revelations or insights to be had.

• dont see the point of this book
  i regret buying this book. i dont see the beauty of the code nor do i see how many of the contributors think. much of the material described here is accessible else where and probably in a more readable and enjoyable form.
  the map reduce article is lame compared to its original version. the authors had to put something in there from google, i felt.
  the beautiful concurrency in haskell is overstated.
  

• Interesting Code
  This book is a mixed box of chocolates. Don't read it expecting a lot of useful ideas on how to improve your code: It's more of a book you read to widen your horizon a bit. Each chapter stands on its own and talks about a different project. Languages include C, Java, Perl, Python, Lisp and others.
  Fortunately, most authors don't dwell too much on their definitions of "beautiful" code (a rough consensus appears to be that beautiful code is readable, concise, efficient, and, surprise, does something... more info

• Much of this book will be inaccessible due to the choices of languages
  Two older books that you should buy instead:
  Programming Pearls, by Jon Bentley.
  Programmers at Work, by Susan Lammers.

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