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Episode 462: Felienne on the Programmers Brain

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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How Do We Speed Read Code That's More Readable?

Programmers spend 60% of their time reading code. Is it easier to speed read code that is more readable? And then how do we make that code more readable for oursel es, our future selves and also for other people who may have to interact with or maintain this code in he long turn? Yet, that's a great question. So i'm going to try, like answer two questions at once,. How do we speed read and also, how do we write a code that is easier to speedread because it's arteed readable? It certainy comes down to the thing. pattern matching actually, in hometed terms, we usually call that trunking - thrunking

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