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It's funny to read what people think are beautiful apps here.

IMHO, the most beautiful software are always games and entertainment titles... After all that is the purpose.

Office 2013? It's very useful! I use a classic menu template and got rid of the ribbon, since the functionality is the same, but in my preferred format. Beauty does not come into play with office...

I can use it for creating beautiful PowerPoint and excel spreadsheets.

Code is never 'beautiful'. It's either concise, well-written and formatted well, or it isn't.

[klibertp]

> Code is never 'beautiful'. It's either concise, well-written and formatted well, or it isn't.

This is not true. You may not value beauty as a characteristic of code, but there are people who do.

Also, you could say the same thing about novels. "concise, well-written and formatted well" are features of most published novels; does it mean they all are the same in terms of beauty?

Beauty is inherently subjective and relative. Personally, I find the code which form and function fit together pretty. It's the same kind of beauty I feel when reading poems. You're free to ignore such things, of course, but saying that the code can never be pretty is actually quite a bit rude to some people.

[V-2]

In my opinion it depends on the type of code. It's unlikely to find beauty in a run-of-the-mill CRUD app; it can be nice and neat at best. Beautiful code is possible when there's creativity involved - there should be some conceptual originality to the code in question. Of course it's not physically impossible to bury some brilliancy in a bank transaction processing script, it's just a less probable place to find one.

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I've evaluated what I have used over the years...

POSER 4 seems like the most beautiful app.