"Anthony Parks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
"what are particularly great programs to *read*. not like great
software,
but great source code. somewhat like treating source code as a
literature,
what are the classics?
I don't know anything specific in Python but one of the greatest
pieces of programming code ever is Donald Knuth's TeX program,
upon which LaTeX is built.
For a long time (maybe still) Knuth offered cash rewards for anyone
who could find a bug in TeX... a few were found but not many.
There is a good write up on TeX on wikipedia explaining many of
the important new concepts it introduced, most important in this
context being the idea ogf literate programming - programs
specifically
designed to be easy to read...
HTH,
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld
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