I studied both English and CS in a hybrid program in college. One of the things that appealed to me about writing great code is that it did parallel good writin

I studied both English and CS in a hybrid program in college. One of the things that appealed to me about writing great code is that it did parallel good writing. The process of writing, especially a paper or a longer thesis relies on logic. There have to be clear bridges, or segues between sometimes disparate thoughts, connecting them. I find when I am writing code, I try to use the same principles. I don't want anyone to look at two isolated pieces of code and think "what the hell, these don't even belong in the same universe, let alone the in same repo." Whether through comments or just good self-documenting code, I want things to connect in some way. Jeremy Ashkenas made the connection in a piece of his writing about coffeescript as well. Kind of an ah-ha moment for me.