With the England vs. Germany game around the corner this coming Wednesday, I caught a sniff this weekend of a new book called “Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think.” I ...

For many years–decades actually–I was a big fan of beautiful code. I read almost everything by Brian Kernighan, Jon Bentley, and P. J. Plauger. This passion for elegant code was an attempt to ...

Christopher Seiwald, chief technology officer for Perforce Software, thinks code should be more than just functional — it should be pretty too. Seiwald's approach aims to encourage software developers ...