@abucci coming back to this: the brilliant coders I've known did read other people's code, effortlessly.
I think it is genuinely a question of literacy. Low levels of code literacy are acceptable in the industry. The incentives in recruitment push programmers to demonstrate they can leet code, not that they can quickly read and understand code, including nuance and subtext. (Yes, of course code has subtext.)
@abucci coming back to this: the brilliant coders I've known did read other people's code, effortlessly.
I think it is genuinely a question of literacy. Low levels of code literacy are acceptable in the industry. The incentives in recruitment push programmers to demonstrate they can leet code, not that they can quickly read and understand code, including nuance and subtext. (Yes, of course code has subtext.)
@abucci no need to apologise. I read it before any of what you mention was evident.
In any case, what I was struck by on reading the book was how most of these 'luminaries' admitted they don't read other people's code.
@abucci "Coders at Work" is a worthwhile read in this context.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coders/_at/_Work
@monica_b1998 I've always imagined Yoda smells strongly of goat.