Comment Re:We just published a book called Beautiful Code. (Score 1) 658
The book should have included the original FORTRAN IV source for Colossal Cave. This code is the closest thing I've seen to the proverbial "brandy and cigar" standard for readable source. This code is readily available on the Web, and should be studied by anyone who says, "But in language X you can't Y." FORTRAN provided essentially zero support for structured code or data abstraction. Yet you can quite easily read the data files and algorithms and easily understand it.
Perhaps Andy would include this in a second edition? Or as an online extra? I could write a commentary... ;)
Perhaps Andy would include this in a second edition? Or as an online extra? I could write a commentary...
