> I feel like our programming tools are pretty good for programming in the small, but I suspect we're still waiting for a breakthrough for being able to actually make complex software reliably. (And, no, I don't just mean yet another "framework" or another language that's just C with a fancier type system or novel memory management)
Readability is for human optimization for self or for other people's posterity and code comprehension to the readers mind. We need a new way to visualize/comprehension code that doesn't involve heavy reading and the read's personal capabilities of syntax parsing/comprehension.
This is something we will likely never be able to get right with our current man machine interfaces; keyboard, mouse/touch, video and audio.
Just a thought. As always I reserve the right to be wrong.
Reading is more than enough. What’s often lacking is usually the why? I can understand the code and what it’s doing, but I may not understand the problem (and sub problems) it’s solving . When you can find explanations for that (links to PR discussions, archives of mail threads, and forums post), it’s great. But some don’t bother or it’s somewhere in chat logs.
Readability is for human optimization for self or for other people's posterity and code comprehension to the readers mind. We need a new way to visualize/comprehension code that doesn't involve heavy reading and the read's personal capabilities of syntax parsing/comprehension.
This is something we will likely never be able to get right with our current man machine interfaces; keyboard, mouse/touch, video and audio.
Just a thought. As always I reserve the right to be wrong.