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Subject:Re: Term for elegant, efficient, tight code? From:"Jo Francis Byrd" <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 30 May 2003 10:14:35 -0500
Ooh...lovely.
Must be first cousin to "glom onto"
Must remember "twig."
Jo Byrd
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From: "Brian Das" <brian_das -at- hotmail -dot- com>
Subject: Re: Term for elegant, efficient, tight code?
Depending on the content of your document, you could follow the MS lead --
just use "Coding Conventions". It's dry, and doesn't convey elegance, but
your developers will probably twig to it immediately.
("Twig". What a weird verb...apparently it's from the Gaelic tuig -
"understand", for you folks with an etymology fetish.)
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