From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-02-26T06:54:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Nexus Programming Language

On 25.02.2009 01:41, Eleanor McHugh wrote:

> But then again I've seen beautiful code in C and Assembler, even in  
> Pascal (see my favourite book, Programming Languages: An Interpreter- 
> based Approach for some wonderful examples) and perhaps one day I'll  
> see beautiful code in Nexus. That alone will be justification enough  
> for the love and effort its developers are pouring into it.

Of course, this provokes the question "what is beauty?" (or "what is a 
beautiful program?").  Pascal seems to like cascades of brackets so he 
even writes Ruby code that way (or maybe it's just a habit) - other 
people will like something else.  IIRC there is this saying about the 
"eye of the beholder"... :)

What I probably wanted to say was: if you consider beauty as a criterion 
for discussing languages it comes as no surprise that there is so little 
agreement among people. :-)

And yes, we've gone completely OT. :-)

Kind regards

	robert


PS: For me beauty in a program is clear structure and few but well 
chosen lines of code.