What makes code "readable"? (was Re: Python vs. Perl, which is better to learn?)

[James J. Besemer]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote:

> My experience in X?Emacs has been that the "many hands" eventually
> expand some scopes; not everybody is a good programmer, or they may
> have an "important" bug that needs "fixed right now".  So you should
> also consider how likely it is that somebody with a different design
> sense than you will work on the code later.

I can't argue with that.

Regards

--jb

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