A code addiction

One of the things I've been realizing lately is that I have a bit of an addiction to code.  Whenever I find a new source code release that seems interesting I can't help but dig into it.  Although it can sometimes be hard to get a whole heck of a lot our of just a set of source files I find myself endlessly wondering around within the source tree.  Evaluating how things are written, what patterns are being used, comparing it to code I've written, and considering alternate design choices that could have made things cleaner or more “elegant.”

# re: A code addiction

Wednesday, June 23, 2004 9:44 AM by Aaron    
Have you found any particularly good sources to study?

It'd be neat to see someone make a blog (a "slog"? [source log]) out of their comments on particularly good examples of code.

# re: A code addiction

Wednesday, June 23, 2004 1:06 PM by Steve    
Aaron, Yeah I've come across a number of good sources, whether I can remember them is the question :) I agree it could be interesting to have a blog devoted to something like that.

# re: A code addiction

Thursday, June 24, 2004 9:24 AM by JosephCooney    
I also enjoy looking at source code for projects I find interesting. I blogged about it here: <a target="_new" href="http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/josephcooney/archive/2004/04/04/10736.aspx">http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/josephcooney/archive/2004/04/04/10736.aspx</a> but Frans Bouma kind of hijacked the discussion by asserting that instead of reading code I should be learning algorithms.

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