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Let me take you on an expedition in search of the beauty in code. Although not everybody links code and beauty, it has always been a natural link for me. Apparently I am not the only one, considering the hefty battles that show up regularly regarding syntax, coding practices, and how things should be written down. I have some strong feelings in this area myself and fought some battles in the past. But syntax and the appearance of code on screen or paper is not the only beauty axis that can be identified, there is more which I also hope to illustrate below.
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Brus, T. (2013). Beauty and Code. In: Achten, P., Koopman, P. (eds) The Beauty of Functional Code. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8106. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40355-2_2
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