Re: Term for elegant, efficient, tight code?

[dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com]

Doc wrote:
>
> In other words, successful compilation, successful operation, and
> efficiency are required for code or any other solution to be
> considered "elegant".

Compilation is trivial; operation is hardly more difficult--both are a given, and it's pointless to include them in the discussion.  According to this definition, that leaves efficiency, which is not alone enough to be described as elegance.

Over the years, my teachers, coworkers, and fellow programmers have always made a distinction between elegance, mere efficiency, and "tightness" of code, as I described earlier.

--David 
 
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