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This is a fantastic post that asks a question that I think many people just jump over on their way to "being right". What exactly does the thing we are talking
by iovrthoughtthis 9y ago
This is a fantastic post that asks a question that I think many people just jump over on their way to "being right".
What exactly does the thing we are talking about mean?
In this case "code readability".
I would add to this that "code readability" only means something to me in the context of it's intended audience. Code is readable when it is simple to decipher by the people that the author intended to decipher it. For anyone else to hold it to standards outside of those agreed upon by the author and the intended audience seems silly.
- pkolaczk 9y agoA problem arises, if there exists no group of people that the author had in mind when writing the code. Some programmers really just code "so that it works" and don't care about readability at all. That's why we have code reviews - a code review is an attempt to read the code. If at least one reviewer understood the code, then we can assume it was not completely unreadable.