A Peek at Beautiful Code

An exciting new book is about to hit the shelves, and I consider myself very lucky to be among its contributors. Beautiful Code, subtitled "leading programmers explain how they think", contains 33 chapters where contributors describe some code they consider noteworthy. Although I don't consider myself worthy of the book's subtitle, I love coding, and I'm extremely happy that code is taking the leading role among such an illustrious cast. Here is the complete table of the book's contents.

1. A Regular Expression Matcher
   Brian Kernighan
2. Subversion's Tree-Delta Editor Interface
   Karl Fogel
3. Adding Function by Deleting Code
   Jon Bentley
4. Finding Things
   Tim Bray
5. Verifying XML
   Elliotte Rusty Harold
6. Ward Cunningham's Framework for Integrated Test
   Michael Feathers
7. Beautiful Testing
   Alberto Savoia
8. On-the-Fly Code Generation for Image Processing
   Charles Petzold
9. Top Down Operator Precedence
   Douglas Crockford
10. Population Count
    Henry Warren
11. Cryptonite
    Ashish Gulhati
12. Growing Beautiful Code in BioPerl
    Lincoln Stein
13. A Gene Sorter
    Jim Kent
14. A Look at Gaussian Elimination for the Solution of Linear Equations
    Jack Dongarra and Piotr Luszczek
15. Beautiful Numerics
    Adam Kolawa
16. The Linux Kernel Driver Model
    Greg Kroah-Hartman
17. Another Level of Indirection
    Diomidis Spinellis
18. An Examination of Python's Dictionary Implementation
    Andrew Kuchling
19. Multi-Dimensional Iterators in NumPy
    Travis Oliphant
20. The Collaborative Information Portal for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission
    Ronald Mak
21. ERP5: Designing for Maximum Adaptability
    Rogerio de Carvalho and Rafael Monnerat
22. A Thimbleful of Sewage
    Bryan Cantrill
23. MapReduce
    Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat
24. Beautiful Concurrency
    Simon Peyton Jones
25. Programmable Syntax
    Kent Dybvig
26. Object-Oriented Patterns and Framework for Networked Software
    William Otte and Doug Schmidt
27. Integrating Business Partners the RESTful Way
    Andrew Patzer
28. Beautiful Debugging
    Andreas Zeller
29. TBD
    Yukihiro Matsumoto and Nevin Thompson
30. Designing Interfaces Under Extreme Constraints: the Stephen Hawking editor
    Arun Mehta
31. Emacspeak: The Complete Audio Desktop
    TV Raman
32. Code in Motion
    Christopher Seiwald and Laura Wingerd
33. An Extreme Makeover in Computational Geometry
    Brian Hayes

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