We'll be holding our regular Toronto Python User's Group (PyGTA) this upcoming Tuesday the 15th 7pm at Linux Caffe, on the corner of Grace and Harbord Street. At the moment we don't have a confirmed speaker, so I was thinking we might try the following (inspired by one of Greg Wilson's recent blog posts[1]): Code Aesthetics Bring a piece of code that you love. Something that's elegant, beautiful, efficient, useful, perfectly formatted, meaningful, warped or wonderful in some way. We'll take 5 minutes each and present our chosen piece of code. Then we'll have people ask questions about the code and why you love it. The code has to be something that can be exposed to the public w/out any non-disclosure agreements or the like, but doesn't necessarily have to be Open Source or distributed. What we're looking for is a discussion of the beauty in the code, the amazing things about it that make it worthwhile. The code does *not* need to be your own work, nor does it necessarily need to be in Python. If possible, try to cut down the code you *present* to a couple of pages (screens) of code, but if your aesthetic preference runs to big systems, be able to describe the system you choose well enough to communicate the wonder of it to the rest of us. Is there any beautiful code out there? Does beauty in code matter? Is code poetry or just grotty machinery? We'll likely repair to a location with beer as the evening winds on and the philosophy runs deep. http://www.pygta.org Have fun, Mike [1] http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/1650.html -- ________________________________________________ Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com