Comment Re:Doesn't have the same ring to it.... (Score 1) 216
I bet the thought of people saying just that is how he drifts off to sleep every night.
Submission + - Any 'pretty' code out there?
andhow writes: Practically any time I see large software discussed I hear "X is a #%@!in mess" or "Y is unmanageable and really should be rewritten". Some of this I know is just fresh programmers seeing their first big hunk o' code and having the natural reaction. In other cases I've heard it from main developers, so I'll take their word for it. Over time, it paints a bleak picture, and I'd be really like to see a counterexample. Getting to know a piece of software well enough to ascertain its quality takes a long time, so I submit to the experience of the readership: what projects have you worked on which you felt had admirable code, both high-level architecture and in-the-trenches implementation? In particular I am interested in large user applications using modern C++ libraries and techniques like exception handling and RAII.
