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Ask HN: Can any code be made to look pretty?
1 point by ryangittins on May 8, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
Generally I put in a little extra effort to make my code pleasant to look at and easy to understand. Right now, however, I'm working on a web scraper and I just cannot get this thing looking nice on the back-end. It simply requires so much massaging of the data that it seems impossible to abstract the hairiness away. I can get it to a moderately understandable and maintainable point, but I don't know if this code can ever be pretty.

Do you think that all code can be made attractive, or are some things just too hairy?



Can we see the code?


I guess I was talking more about code in general than my specific case. My case is just what prompted me to ponder.




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