Agreed. Background / culture makes a big difference on how well devs can understand each other's code. I still wish more of my teammates (past & present) wrot

Agreed. Background / culture makes a big difference on how well devs can understand each other's code. I still wish more of my teammates (past & present) wrote more comments (as in "statement of purpose", at the top of a chunk, not just "this part is complicated", in the middle here and there) in their code, though. :-) Anecdata: As somebody who did actual paid work in an interpreted / dynamic language in the late 80s during and just after college, I seem to see people who have only been through the C ... Java regime struggling with more "modern" (? alternate, anyway) dynamic / functional scripting type languages. It's just not something they are familiar with (intuitive = familiar). Not that CSU did a great job teaching FP in the 80s, but we at least got to play with original flavor Lisp a few times...