June 2005
Beginner to intermediate
328 pages
7h 15m
English
I've long been a fan of Paul Ford's website, Ftrain.com. So when Apress asked me to put together this book, I knew it had to include something of his.
Something about this article precisely captures the essence of what I consider to be "elegance" in software writing. The clarity and poetry in writing; the clean sparse lines of thought; the erudition; and the blockbuster, showstopper, mind-numbingly beautiful closing paragraph ... I think I'm going to faint; get me a chair.
Either that or it's really campy, but that's good too. – Ed.
Late-night thoughts on little computer languages, the Web as a form, and my own ignorance.
I've been fiddling with Processing,2 a small computer language layered above Java. Processing ...
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