I had a similar reaction while reading this, something along the lines of “well, that’s a bunch of idealistic tripe”. And, honestly, I think that somewhat hold

I had a similar reaction while reading this, something along the lines of “well, that’s a bunch of idealistic tripe”. And, honestly, I think that somewhat holds. That said, as an aim, writing readable code that doesn’t need to be read to be used is a good one. I wrote as much in a quora response almost a decade ago to the question “how does one become a great coder” ( https://www.quora.com/How-does-one-become-a-great-coder-programmer/answer/Matthew-Chaboud?ch=15&oid=12759472&share=5db82526&srid=vWzg&target_type=answer https://www.quora.com/How-does-one-become-a-great-coder-prog... ), and I think it still holds. However, the other part of that answer was to make the code immensely readable, because we read more code than we write unless we’re incredibly junior or comically superhuman.