SPUG: elegance ? sucess : failure
Michael R. Wolf
MichaelRWolf at att.net
Wed Jan 28 04:05:18 CST 2004
I like elegant solutions. Always have. functions, knots, gadgets,
words -- I like 'em all to be elegant. I'm in awe of an elegant
solution to a problem, be it code, rope, gears, or a turn of phrase.
I stumbled across a quote from an elder, a founding-parent in the
logic world of computers, if you will. He was a very logical,
methodical man.
Elegence is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between
sucess and failure.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
elegance: ingeniously simple and effective
-- OED
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Michael R. Wolf
All mammals learn by playing!
MichaelRWolf at att.net
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