Readable programs - Luke Gorrie's blog: "Programming is, among other things, a kind of writing. One way to learn writing is to write, but in all other forms of writing, one also reads. We read examples - both good and bad - to facilitate learning. But how many programmers learn to write programs by reading programs? A few, but not many. And with the advent of terminals, things are getting worse, for the programmer may not even see his own program in a form suitable for reading. In the old days … programmers would while away the time by reading each others’ programs. Some even went so far as to read programs from the program library - which in those days was still a library in the old sense of the term.
– Gerald Weinberg, The Psychology of Computer Programming"
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