Readable code decreases ramp-up time, both in a language and in a codebase. I've never written a line of Java in my life, but if you dropped me in a Java codeb

Readable code decreases ramp-up time, both in a language and in a codebase. I've never written a line of Java in my life, but if you dropped me in a Java codebase I could start understanding the structure immediately and contributing to it very quickly. If you dropped me in a J codebase I'm not convinced that would ever be the case. Writing terse readable code is great. Writing code that is so terse that it doesn't have variable names is an antipattern.