Code like a what?
Creating Passionate Users: Code like a girl:"I think 'girl code' is quite a compliment. Because caring about things like beauty makes us better programmers and engineers. We make better things. Things that aren't just functional, but easy to read, elegantly maintainable, easier--and more joyful--to use, and sometimes flat-out sexy. A passion for aesthetics can mean the difference between code that others enjoy working on vs. code that's stressful to look at. And whether we like it or not, most of the world associates an appreciation for beauty more with women than men (especially geek men). Women may have a genetic advantage here."There's a good point stuck here in this mashup of quotes and references. I've always been a fan of readable code - it sure makes for less comments and documentation when you have a coding style that enables quick re-learning of something you'd worked on months ago.
I won't go as far as to say the most important thing is writing code that makes other coders drool for the sake of the slobber. The documents I've seen which fell into that category certainly did have pretty code, but it wasn't about formatting or naming. It was all about an elegant solution to a problem. It was about brevity and wit in programming. I guess you could call it beauty if you were of that frame of mind, but I don't think the two are connected in many minds.
That being said, I would wear a code like a girl t-shirt. Mostly because I think girls are cool, and that there's not that many of them coding out there. Or rather, not enough of them coding out there.
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