> making the code-reading part of your brain fluent in this sort of code [...] lots of patience I've not seen attempts to aid learning of basic skills for read

> making the code-reading part of your brain fluent in this sort of code [...] lots of patience I've not seen attempts to aid learning of basic skills for reading diverse coding styles. The space is large, from "eyeball abstraction" over "code is 90% repetition and boilerplate", to APLish "DO Repeat Yourself! At every callsite! With variations! ... each is like 4 characters", to terse lambda "code is documentation for humans, and only secondarily executable", to ... . There are skills involved with reading each style. And non-obvious tradeoffs to use. But even within individual styles, aid seems more "write and read a lot of code, and you'll eventually get the hang of it", and less "here, let me break down for you what I'm doing, what skills I'm using, when I read this". Perhaps there's some "live coding^H^H^He reading" on yt? Or how about an interviewer pair-reads code with a language expert? While linters trending increasingly strict, towards canonical representation, raises hope for the old dream of AST-based coding, it does crush an axis of expressive power, for better and worse. Hmm, I wonder if one could generate an ML training corpus to answer "explain what this bit of code here is doing and why"? Or perhaps, "create a minimum-ink compressed summary of these files"? Or even aspire to "rewrite this Java code in the style of APL"? :P (Ha - further down this page, ChatGPT https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34053932 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34053932 )