Foreword / Preface -- A regular expression matcher / Subversion's delta editor : interface as ontology / The most beautiful code I never wrote / Finding things / Correct, beautiful, fast (in that order) : lessons from designing XML verifiers / Framework for integrated test : beauty through fragility / Beautiful tests / On-the-fly code generation for image processing / Top down operator precedence / The quest for an accelerated population count / Secure communication : the technology of freedom / Growing beautiful code in bioperl / The design of the gene sorter / How elegant code evolves with hardware : the case of Gaussian elimination / The long-term benefits of beautiful design

The Linux kernel driver model : the benefits of working together / Another level of indirection / Python's dictionary implementation : being all things to all people / Multidimensional iterators in numpy / A highly reliable enterprise system for Nasa's mars rover mission / ERP5 : designing for maximum adaptability / A spoonful of sewage / Distributed programming with MapReduce / Beautiful concurrency / Syntactic abstraction : the syntax-case expander / Labor-saving architecture : an object-oriented framework for networked software / Integrating business partners the restful way / Beautiful debugging / Treating code as an essay / When a button is all that connects you to the world / Emacspeak : the complete audio desktop / Code in motion / Writing programs for "the book" / Afterword / Contributors -- Index.