Program comprehension seems like a fascinating research field if you enjoy figuring out why we do the things we do as software developers. It seems that we do i

Program comprehension seems like a fascinating research field if you enjoy figuring out why we do the things we do as software developers. It seems that we do indeed explore code, but we do so in somewhat systematic and predictable ways, which in turn might give us ideas about how to write our code to be more readable. If anyone is interested, I suggest the publications of Anneliese von Mayrhauser and A. Marie Vans from the mid-90s as a possible starting point. They did a lot of work to reconcile earlier theories and paint a more unified big picture. Václav Rajlich is another name to search for, with several interesting publications in the early 2000s.