Beautiful Code - a great read
One of the two books I’ve ordered this year that I really just could not wait to get O’Reilly’s Beautiful Code. It’s just as good as I thought it would be. Very interesting article on Subversion’s delta editor, Tim Bray has a great look at search and a very pragmatic approach (as well as a realistic discussion on using Ruby).
But of course, the part I loved the most, Matz’s look at how code should be written.
Humans are more valuable than any tools or languages. Computers should serve programmers to maximize their productivity and happiness, but in reality, they often increase the burden instead of lightening it.
I just ordered it – looks good. What was the other book you could not wait to get?
@dan – Programming Erlang. Shipping in hard copy this week.