RE: Term for elegant, efficient, tight code?

[John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>]

> the point that "elegance" requires a number
> of things -- and among them the quality of 
> validity. So it seems that Doc also misunderstood

Sometimes elegant, efficient, tight code taken to the extreme is counter
productive. I believe there are "contests" where programmers attempt to
create the greatest amount of functionality in the least amount of code, and
the problem is, nobody else can read it. It may be possible to create a
whole "program" in the fewest lines of code, but it is impossible to modify
it, and unless you know the exact techniques as the person who wrote it, you
may not be able to decipher it.

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