What's the most elegant piece of code you've seen?

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old - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11005003Been a while since this was asked. What has captured your attention for its elegance and beauty

_-----_ · Accepted Answer

Anything I have ever written, until I've re-read it.

jeffrallen · Answer

A wonderfully Go-like piece of magic: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/go1/src/pkg/image/gif/read...
What's magic there seemed magical at the time because even Go's creators were only just coming to see the power of interfaces then. Now, having a decompressor read from a block reader, which reads in turn from some other place, is not magical, it's just good practice.
This is from Go 1. Unfortunately, that file accumulated tons of other ugliness over time, as it dealt with the real world. I was one of the people who had to make that line less magic. Sorry Rob.

derwiki · Answer

A little dated, but tornado always impressed me:https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornadoAlso Norvig&rsquo;s spell checker:https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html

Dopameaner · Answer

Some of my fav. works includeBittorrent and Bitcoin

deterministic · Answer

The Lambda Calculus. Invented in the 1930s it is still used today as the basis for most advanced CS research and as the foundation of many programming languages.

betsuin · Answer

cat /var/log/apache2/access.log | awk '!a[$0]++'

Dopameaner · Answer

I am surprised no one mentioned chatGPT or GPT-3

bitlax · Answer

Redis source often gets mentioned in these threads.

What's the most elegant piece of code you've seen?

old - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11005003
Been a while since this was asked. What has captured your attention for its elegance and beauty

Anything I have ever written, until I've re-read it.

A little dated, but tornado always impressed me:
https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado
Also Norvig’s spell checker:
https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html

Some of my fav. works include
Bittorrent and Bitcoin

The Lambda Calculus. Invented in the 1930s it is still used today as the basis for most advanced CS research and as the foundation of many programming languages.

cat /var/log/apache2/access.log | awk '!a[$0]++'

I am surprised no one mentioned chatGPT or GPT-3

Redis source often gets mentioned in these threads.