Re: Term for elegant, efficient, tight code?

["Michael West" <mbwest -at- removebigpond -dot- net -dot- au>]

<dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com> wrote in message news:200561 -at- techwr-l -dot-  -dot-  -dot- 
>
> 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.

Doc didn't say they were sufficient -- he said they
were necessary.

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

--
Michael West
Melbourne, Australia




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