moving in the right direction when you were throwing stuff away

That would be princepawn/metaperl, whose sig says "Carter's compass: I know I'm on the right track when by deleting something, I'm adding functionality".

I think this is a basic tenet that comes up time and again in human endeavour. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry said "You know you have achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away."

Going back earlier in time, Blaise Pascal said, of a letter he had written, "I have made this longer than usual, only because I have not had time to make it shorter."

- another intruder with the mooring of the heart of the Perl

In reply to Re^2: how do you express coding-pleasure? (notable quotes) by grinder
in thread how do you express coding-pleasure? by zetetes

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