Regular Toronto Python User's Group (PyGTA) Meeting July 15th: Code Aesthetics

[Mike C. Fletcher]

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

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