What is beautiful code?
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008First of all: What is beauty?
For beauty includes three conditions, “integrity” or “perfection,” since those things which are impaired are by the very fact ugly; due “proportion” or “harmony”; and lastly, “brightness” or “clarity,” whence things are called beautiful which have a bright color.
— Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica.
This definition of beauty by Thomas Aquinas was [...]