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  • Rated 3 stars

  “The "Beautiful Code" book - collection of essays from well-known (and not well-known) software developers, about what is a "beautiful code". I can say, that book is good, but not more, as there are many essays about solving simple (from my point of view) problems. From all essays, that I've read, I can recommend following:
  - "Beautiful concurrency" by Simon Peyton Jones - about implementation of parallel programs in Haskell
  - "Syntactic abstraction: the syntax-case expander" by R. Kent Dybvig - how macros in Scheme work
  - "Enacspeak: the complete audio desktop" by T.V. Raman
  - "Top Down Operator Precedence" by Douglas Crockford
  - "Growing Beautiful Code in BioPerl" by Lincoln Stein
  - "Another level of indirection"
  - "Distributed programming with map/reducev by Jeffrey Dean & Sanjay Ghemawat
  So if you'll get this book, you need at least look through it and select essays, that could be interested for you...”

  Alex Ott wrote this review Monday, November 24 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
  • Rated 3 stars

  “There are some gems in this book, but it's not light reading and quite a bit of it is a real slog. If you are a professional programmer, it's probably worth the effort, but otherwise I'd stay clear.”

  Sweet Ol' Bob wrote this review Sunday, August 10 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
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  “I just bought this book and I love it already. The article "the most beautiful code I never wrote" is excellent.”

  Bibliophile wrote this review Sunday, May 18 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
  • Rated 3 stars

  “Beautiful Code is probably the most unequal software book I have ever read, both in term of style and content. Some chapters are very formal and academic, while others are more relaxed and down to earth. Some chapters really offer food for thought in the matter of software development, while others are arid displays of obscure code with no lesson to gather from. If all the royalties were not given to Amnesty International, I would have felt totally frustrated by this book. At least, I have the feeling to have served a good cause with my money.”

  David Dossot wrote this review Wednesday, March 19 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No