Beautiful Code

by Virginia Postrel  •  Apr 6, 2006 at 10:30 am

http://www.dynamist.com/1653/beautiful-code

Thanks to reader Jon Sweet for sending this link to a post on the Passionate Users blog that defends--in fact, advocates--polished, carefully crafted "girl code." Writes blogger Kathy Sierra, "A passion for aesthetics can mean the difference between code that others enjoy working on vs. code that's stressful to look at." Check out the rest of the blog here.