I would say that readability is a facet of maintainability. If a good developer looks at code the first time and thinks, "WTF," it could use some better readabi

I would say that readability is a facet of maintainability. If a good developer looks at code the first time and thinks, "WTF," it could use some better readability. That's about as nailed down as I can make it (because it's so objective).