Submission + - The Sky Hook - a model for great software? (blogspot.com)
danieldkim writes: Kareem Abdul Jabbar's sky hook not only met the prosaic objective of simply putting the ball in the basket more effectively than other single shot in basketball, it was also, in the words of Bill Russell, "the most beautiful thing in all of sports". In The Sky Hook, I discuss how the sky hook is similiar to great software in that it is difficult to seperate the beauty of its form from how well it functions.