Re: Term for elegant, efficient, tight code?

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

(Eric, please let me know if this is the thread you feel has gotten off-track.)

Michael West wrote:
> 
> Doc didn't say they were sufficient -- he said they were necessary.

Maybe it's a question of interpretation.

He said:

  ...successful compilation, successful operation, and 
  efficiency are required for code or any other solution 
  to be considered "elegant".

I took that to mean "These are the requirements for elegant code.  If it meets these requirements, it's elegant."

I didn't think of it in terms of Aristotelian logic.

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

<Sigh>

The original question was about a term that might describe code that is elegant, efficient, and tight.

At some point, we got into the definitions of the terms, and I commented on their usage by the CS professors and professionals I've known, among whom compilation and operation of a solution are assumed:  they wouldn't even be considering code that wouldn't compile or that didn't work correctly.

--David 
 
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