I was just discussing something like this with my team <usual-disclaimers/>, and dropped the obligatory Knuth quote: “The best programs are written so that com

I was just discussing something like this with my team <usual-disclaimers/>, and dropped the obligatory Knuth quote: “The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.” ― Donald E. Knuth, Selected Papers on Computer Science Notice "human beings", plural; so not just the person who's writing the code.