Actually, you're both. You're an engineer when you hand your code to the computer to execute. But you are an artist when writing code for others to read. It's n

Actually, you're both. You're an engineer when you hand your code to the computer to execute. But you are an artist when writing code for others to read. It's not a coincidence that a lot of advice for beginning authors (of novels) is quite similar to advice on writing readable code.