Lawrence your whole post is fascinating, & I agree with much of it, &
might argue a bit with others.
I pull this out because one might say that such 'elegance' is more
math (which is also a ind of 'art'?). So it gets, always, more
complicated.
My original point, which Chris picked up on, was only that the stuff
I looked at now nearly a decade ago, required some pretty complex
programming (& I cant program a thing!) but after one viewing
(required for reading the thesis) I had no interest in looking again.
As to Olson, when you say 'information' how wide a meaning are you
assigning to that term? I immediately thought of 'The Kingfishers' &
Maximus Poems, & how many different kinds of info they contain: that
what you were after?
Doug
On 25-Feb-10, at 4:45 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> Elegance
> is a programming virtue from some points of view.
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