From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-08-08T10:52:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19321] code improvement (was:Re:  Re: ANN: Code Amelioration Contest (presented by  Ruby Conference 2001))

Hello --

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Tobias Reif wrote:

> Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
>
> > Most wanted :-). Yet I would still want to examine the code in order to
> > not commit obfuscated or "too much optimized" stuff.
>
> Sounds good to me!
>
> I think Ruby's strengths include readable code.
> So if the whole "code improving" (I don't like "amelioration") should

"Amelioration" is just the (somewhat whimsical) name of the contest --
no suggestion that it be adopted generally or that it means anything
that can't be expressed otherwise (though I happen to like the word
:-)

> aim at making nice, clear, structured, readable, concise, direct, real,
> and efficient code, that shows that programming tasks can be expressed
> nicely with Ruby, and at showing the Ruby way of doing things.

Yes, that's definitely the hope.  Bring it on!  :-)

(I've changed the subject line here, since this thread has moved on to
things which, while related to code improvement, aren't specifically
about the contest.)


David

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