I have dabbled quite a few times with mindmaps but I am mostly linear mode person writing line after line or making bullet points when I want to make a note of anything worth taking note of. Now I am in the phase where I am dabbling again with mindmaps and I came across this write-up about what constitutes a beautiful code. The write-up is by Yukihiro Matsumoto, creator of programming language Ruby, and is part of the book Beautiful Code . In the chapter the author writes about what beautiful code means to him and uses Ruby to explain his viewpoint. But the chapter is a short one and doesn’t has much code in it. I made a summary of the chapter using MindMap and here is the result:
The mindmap was created using FreeMind.

