Architects, for example, can name their favorite structures and likely discuss them at length. Can software engineers do the same?<p>Provide examples your favorite pieces of code throughout history, any language.<p>Code can be aesthetic in many ways, I don’t intend to limit responses to any particular metric. Whatever floats your boat. Bonus points for explaining what you like about it.
I once wrote a web service that I deployed and then never had to maintain. I still have not discovered any bugs in it, and it has not needed any new features. It's still running now and has thousands of users a day.<p>That code is beautiful because I never have to look at it or tinker with it.<p>(For those wondering about security, it is deployed in containers that are destroyed and rebuilt from patched images on a daily basis. It does not use any web-hosted libraries.)