On 10 August 2010 22:56, Chidambaram Annamalai <[email protected]> wrote: > I suppose you have browsed through the sources an don't find anything novel > in them. In which case, I certainly would like to know what you consider > elegant. Then, maybe I can learn to appreciate good design?
I haven't even heard of Boost until now, and I don't know C++, but I have looked at some elegant, and a lot of not-so-elegant, code. I used to consider Plan 9 to be elegant, but as I've grown more familiar with the source behind the concepts, I'm not quite so sure anymore. (Heretic!) Amongst my most admired code is xv6[1], a modern x86 reimplementation of UNIX V6 by Russ Cox, Frans Kaashoek, and Robert Morris. Having hacked around with the source while I was writing my own kernel, I have to say, it really is beautiful. (A lot of credit must go to Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, et al for the original V6, of course.) cls [1]: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/xv6/
