Programming Language and code aesthetics
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Does Code written in some languages appear more "beautiful" than other languages? Granted, there is an element of developer there too. But ignoring the developer, do code in some languages prone to appear more "ugly" than in some other languages. For example, to me code written in Java/C#/Python/JavaScript appear aesthetically more pleasing than that in Objective C or Scheme (even though I love Scheme) or Perl. What languages do you find "beautiful" ? or you don't think that there is an aesthetic aspect of a languages?
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forth is prettiest (but not so useful in the long run) c++ is the next prettiest then c then 68000 asm the rest are are an absolute dog's breakfast... X|
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Christian hinted at it: we tend to "feel" code is beautiful if it is well structured (or if you want to be sexist about it: well stacked!) and code which is not structured is ugly. But we do this in other areas of life as well: a flower bed which is looked after is pleasant to look at while an untended flower bed overrun with weeds is ugly. I suppose you could call BASIC, the weeds of programming languages.
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
Michael Bergman wrote:
I suppose you could call BASIC, the weeds of programming languages.
Only if you count COBOL as the badly written memo of programming languages.
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For me the good written C++ is more beautiful then an attractive girl emerging from the sea together with the sunrise in the summer day. JAVA could be sexy too in some cases. The “foreach” loop and “readonly” keyword gives the C# a little fat look.
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Deyan Georgiev wrote:
For me the good written C++ is more beautiful then an attractive girl emerging from the sea together with the sunrise in the summer day. JAVA could be sexy too in some cases. The “foreach” loop and “readonly” keyword gives the C# a little fat look.
Y'know Deyan, you should stop working during the weekends. Go out, enjoy a drink or four, meet some girls, meet some new people who aren't in the computer business, it'll do you a world of good my friend.
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Does Code written in some languages appear more "beautiful" than other languages? Granted, there is an element of developer there too. But ignoring the developer, do code in some languages prone to appear more "ugly" than in some other languages. For example, to me code written in Java/C#/Python/JavaScript appear aesthetically more pleasing than that in Objective C or Scheme (even though I love Scheme) or Perl. What languages do you find "beautiful" ? or you don't think that there is an aesthetic aspect of a languages?
Proud to be a CPHog user
In order of preference Object Pascal, Python, Smalltalk, C++/C#/C/Java, Lisp
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Does Code written in some languages appear more "beautiful" than other languages? Granted, there is an element of developer there too. But ignoring the developer, do code in some languages prone to appear more "ugly" than in some other languages. For example, to me code written in Java/C#/Python/JavaScript appear aesthetically more pleasing than that in Objective C or Scheme (even though I love Scheme) or Perl. What languages do you find "beautiful" ? or you don't think that there is an aesthetic aspect of a languages?
Proud to be a CPHog user
I take heat for it but I love VB.net. C++ may look pretty form a distance but as she gets closer you start to see that her blouse is off by one button, one high heel is shorter than the other and her eyes are crossed in a wild and crazy look that makes you think she perpetually drinks way too much. Oh yeah, and her hair extensions are starting to come loose...
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Deyan Georgiev wrote:
For me the good written C++ is more beautiful then an attractive girl emerging from the sea together with the sunrise in the summer day. JAVA could be sexy too in some cases. The “foreach” loop and “readonly” keyword gives the C# a little fat look.
Y'know Deyan, you should stop working during the weekends. Go out, enjoy a drink or four, meet some girls, meet some new people who aren't in the computer business, it'll do you a world of good my friend.
Don't forget to vote if the response was helpful
Sig history "dad" Ishmail-Samuel Mustafa Unix is a Four Letter Word, and Vi is a Two Letter Abbreviation "There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance" Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Mustafa, could I ask you something? Print the quoted one, find some notary sign it, put a seal and bind with a government apostil after that send it to me. It could be something like: I, down signed Mustafa Ismail Mustafa Hereby Authorize Deyan Georgiev to:
Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
Go out, enjoy a drink or four, meet some girls, meet some new people who aren't in the computer business
I need something more official for my wife.:)
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In order of preference Object Pascal, Python, Smalltalk, C++/C#/C/Java, Lisp
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If one says that the Object Pascal is the best language ever created I probably would agree. But pretty?!? It’s ugly like hell. Even using the “With” can't prevent code from looking like teenage chat-room.
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Programmers are romantics. We're lovers not fighters. Why, developers are widely regarded as being the sexiest creatures on the planet. Our beauty causes people in other professions to go blind. We are love. We are truth. We are sex at a keyboard.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
It's the white pills you idiot! 2 of the white one and ONLY 1 of the red. You know what too many red pills does to you, seesh. That poor nurse was walking funny for months ..
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Programmers are romantics. We're lovers not fighters. Why, developers are widely regarded as being the sexiest creatures on the planet. Our beauty causes people in other professions to go blind. We are love. We are truth. We are sex at a keyboard.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
We're lovers not fighters.
Aye! /ravi
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I take heat for it but I love VB.net. C++ may look pretty form a distance but as she gets closer you start to see that her blouse is off by one button, one high heel is shorter than the other and her eyes are crossed in a wild and crazy look that makes you think she perpetually drinks way too much. Oh yeah, and her hair extensions are starting to come loose...
That's on a good day... Things get uglier most days.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Does Code written in some languages appear more "beautiful" than other languages? Granted, there is an element of developer there too. But ignoring the developer, do code in some languages prone to appear more "ugly" than in some other languages. For example, to me code written in Java/C#/Python/JavaScript appear aesthetically more pleasing than that in Objective C or Scheme (even though I love Scheme) or Perl. What languages do you find "beautiful" ? or you don't think that there is an aesthetic aspect of a languages?
Proud to be a CPHog user
Absolutely! Pascal is the epitome of beautiful languages, while C++ is merely the pit.
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Mustafa, could I ask you something? Print the quoted one, find some notary sign it, put a seal and bind with a government apostil after that send it to me. It could be something like: I, down signed Mustafa Ismail Mustafa Hereby Authorize Deyan Georgiev to:
Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
Go out, enjoy a drink or four, meet some girls, meet some new people who aren't in the computer business
I need something more official for my wife.:)
The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
Hey Mustafa, while you're at it for Deyan, could you send me one too? The wife's leash tends to be pretty short...
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Good question. If he considers C to be ugly, how could he consider C++ or C# to be, well, not ugly?
BDF People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous. -- Moliere
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No, of the nice ones. But, that's probably b/c I learned C++ first, so the way it looks makes sense to me.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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If one says that the Object Pascal is the best language ever created I probably would agree. But pretty?!? It’s ugly like hell. Even using the “With” can't prevent code from looking like teenage chat-room.
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I'd argue that part of Object Pascal's "prettiness" is in it's uniformity. There's a precision to it's design that make it feel like something that was crafted and thought about, whereas C/C++ tend to feel like something that was just kind of grown from some crazy mad scientist's post-60's LSD trip, and then gradually beaten into shape to be something useful. While the verbosity can be a bit much, I'd agree with you on the "with" keyword, it also, IMHO, leads to very nicely laid out and well written code. Of all the code I've ever read, OP was the easiest to just fall into, and the best code I've ever read, bar none, is Borland's VCL source. It's clean, clear, and easy to follow, with largely logical names, well thought out design, it's just good stuff. Contrast that with most C/C++ code, which frequently is either a maze of cryptic, vowel challenged, 3 letter variable names, or an unreadable morass of hungarian notation, half of which doesn't even match up any more, plus the haze of pre-processor statements, which make you want to poke your eyes out trying to figure out what's going on.
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I'd argue that part of Object Pascal's "prettiness" is in it's uniformity. There's a precision to it's design that make it feel like something that was crafted and thought about, whereas C/C++ tend to feel like something that was just kind of grown from some crazy mad scientist's post-60's LSD trip, and then gradually beaten into shape to be something useful. While the verbosity can be a bit much, I'd agree with you on the "with" keyword, it also, IMHO, leads to very nicely laid out and well written code. Of all the code I've ever read, OP was the easiest to just fall into, and the best code I've ever read, bar none, is Borland's VCL source. It's clean, clear, and easy to follow, with largely logical names, well thought out design, it's just good stuff. Contrast that with most C/C++ code, which frequently is either a maze of cryptic, vowel challenged, 3 letter variable names, or an unreadable morass of hungarian notation, half of which doesn't even match up any more, plus the haze of pre-processor statements, which make you want to poke your eyes out trying to figure out what's going on.
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Jim Crafton wrote:
Of all the code I've ever read, OP was the easiest to just fall into, and the best code I've ever read, bar none, is Borland's VCL source. It's clean, clear, and easy to follow, with largely logical names, well thought out design, it's just good stuff.
I’m totally agreed with that. The VCL even the Indy components was masterpiece. Though some function names like “GetDefaultSystemFonts” are a little too verbose.:)
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I take heat for it but I love VB.net. C++ may look pretty form a distance but as she gets closer you start to see that her blouse is off by one button, one high heel is shorter than the other and her eyes are crossed in a wild and crazy look that makes you think she perpetually drinks way too much. Oh yeah, and her hair extensions are starting to come loose...
Ray Cassick wrote:
I take heat for it but I love VB.net.
As well you should.
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
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Does Code written in some languages appear more "beautiful" than other languages? Granted, there is an element of developer there too. But ignoring the developer, do code in some languages prone to appear more "ugly" than in some other languages. For example, to me code written in Java/C#/Python/JavaScript appear aesthetically more pleasing than that in Objective C or Scheme (even though I love Scheme) or Perl. What languages do you find "beautiful" ? or you don't think that there is an aesthetic aspect of a languages?
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My vote for the prettiest language is PCL6. My vote for the ugliest language is PCL6.
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
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forth is prettiest (but not so useful in the long run) c++ is the next prettiest then c then 68000 asm the rest are are an absolute dog's breakfast... X|
Steve Hazel wrote:
forth is prettiest (but not so useful in the long run
You didn't take your meds today, did you? FORTH; blech.
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Christian Graus wrote:
Any BASIC derived language is ugly as sin. Objective C is ugly
I'd hate to see what kind of programming language you could get if you hooked those two up.
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