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Ask HN: Examples of good code?

4 points by soham ↗ HN
I'm looking for examples of well-written code (open-source projects), for study material.

If you have come across code, from which you learnt a lot by reading it, please share.

Thanks!

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geocar
Most recently for me, I saw Arthur's code which might not be what you're looking for. The origins of J[1], is publicly available C code, and even if it doesn't move you, consider spending some time on it anyway.

When I was younger, I learned a lot from reading djb's code[2] changed the way I think about application design and [3] changed my mind about system administration. Actually everything djb wrote is worth learning from.

Before that I recall specifically sicp[4] giving me a lot to think about.

There are also bigger things (like plan9[5] and emacs[6]) that I've found interesting.

[1]: http://nsl.com/papers/origins.htm

[2]: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html

[3]: http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

[4]: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

[5]: http://9p.io/plan9/index.html

[6]: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

dozzie
I wouldn't invoke DJB's daemon as an example of good code. It's awful, its structure is terrible, file structure is terrible as well.
daly
Physically Based Rendering by Pharr and Humphreys (a literate program) is exceptionally readable ndncdall of the source code. It won an Academy Award.