I guess a good place to start looking for a definition of readable would be Peter Norvig's Rule of English Translation[0]. 1. Start with an English descripti

I guess a good place to start looking for a definition of readable would be Peter Norvig's Rule of English Translation[0]. 1. Start with an English description of algorithm 2. Write the code from the description 3. Translate the code back into English 4. Compare 3 to 1 Code that is easily translated to an English is probably the closest we can get to readable code. As a side note, this entire discussion of what makes good code is making me think of this[1]. [0] https://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/cmsc421/norvig-lisp-style.pdf https://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/cmsc421/norvig-lisp-style.pdf [1] https://twitter.com/paulbaumgart/status/571788242174918656 https://twitter.com/paulbaumgart/status/571788242174918656