Go rant

[Lutger]

retard wrote:

> Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:54:19 +0100, Daniel de Kok wrote:
> 
>> On 2009-12-19 21:04:32 +0100, Andrei Alexandrescu
>> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> said:
>>> "This code is shown for its elegance rather than its efficiency. Using
>>> ++ in this way is not generally considered good programming practice."
>>> 
>>> So if the code is inefficient and in poor programming practice, how in
>>> this blessed world could it count as elegant?
>> 
>> Well, it is elegant in that it is very readable, and as such provides
>> educational value. There are very many examples in programming text
>> books that may not be efficient, but do show the solution to a problem
>> elegantly.
> 
> I have several imperative language programming books and instead of qsort
> they introduce the reader to the wonderful world of bubble sort!

And do you think that is good and elegant or stupid and ugly?