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Re:Ask HN: The most fun and beautiful code you know of? by Jeremysr on Saturday May 23, 2009 @01:23AM (#623173)
My own code...

(Not because it's perfect and beautiful, but just because I wrote it and understand it.)

Re:Ask HN: The most fun and beautiful code you know of? by edw519 on Saturday May 23, 2009 @09:44AM (#623431)
My own code that's common throughout all of my software.

Report writers, data base update objects, data formatting routines, form processors, string & array handlers, special logic algorithms, and especially, code generators.

The more I read these, the better I know them.

The better I know them, the easier to improve and extend them.

The more I extend them, the better my software gets and the less of it I have to write to get anything done. Leverage.

I literally have a folder of all this stuff on my nightstand or in my backpack all the time.