> But something we forget often is... the goal of reading code is almost always to understand a system or some part of it. And reading code for me is a terrible

> But something we forget often is... the goal of reading code is almost always to understand a system or some part of it. And reading code for me is a terrible way to do it. Good point. A couple famous quotes that speak to this[0]: Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious. -- Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. -- Linus Torvalds [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9487819 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9487819