Writing/discussions about the aesthetics of code?

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Published on 2011-02-18T06:26:08Z Indexed on 2011/02/18 7:32 UTC
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I'm looking for considerations of the questions "Can code be beautiful?" and "What makes code beautiful?"

Examples would include:

This academic paper: Obfuscation, Weird Languages, and Code Aesthetics
This blog post: Hamon or the Skin Deep Beauty of Code

Please note that I'm not trying to start a discussion here, or asking for opinions about what makes code beautiful, or for code you think is beautiful; I'm trying to find stuff that has already been published.

Thanks for your help.

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