Re: A good book

paul c <toledobythesea@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
a) if 'elegant' means minimal (what I like to think even though I've
known people who thought it meant terse or symmetrical or somehow
pretty) a lot of bright philosphers over a lot of years managed to get
the common understanding of fopl notation and operators down to a pretty
small/minimal set (nand/nor, exists, forall). that seems promising for
minimal code.

Since we're discussing Dijkstra, of course, elegant means "ingeniously
simple and effective". :)

In any case, I'm not trying to start a newsgroup debate, although I'd
read one if it started. I'm just looking for background material.

--
Chris Smith - Lead Software Developer / Technical Trainer
MindIQ Corporation
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