On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Connor Lane Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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!) > Interesting. May I ask what languages you are familiar with? > 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.) > Thanks for pointing me to beautful code! I will definitely take a look at this. Chillu
