And another similarity to good writing - sometimes you really do need to have really dense, precise stuff that isn't easy to understand without a close read. Yo

And another similarity to good writing - sometimes you really do need to have really dense, precise stuff that isn't easy to understand without a close read. You put that into an appendix when writing, and into optimized low level routines/libraries when writing software. That way you can make things readable, but still have the "performance".