Hi monks,

I've been seeing alot of people saying that "this code is elegant", or "my GOD that is elegant code", and so on, and so on. I was wondering how one might "define" elegant code? Maybe it is a lack of perl experience and/or knowledge, but code seems to me like "pretty code", "well-written code", or "crap code". Pretty code consists of readable code, with comments of course, well-written code consists mainly of it's ability to be able to be applied to anything (and truthfully, me not being able to understand it, or some of it), and crap code is, well, just that, crap. Can't be used more than once, modifyications are hellishly difficult, and it's suckily verbose.
What do you, experienced monks, consider elegant code?
Thank you in advance for your responses, you are helping a young monk get a good foothold in this language :-)

-Dhoss

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In reply to IYO, what is elegant code? by stonecolddevin

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