Examples of code that is easier to read than write include those where the code represents a deep insight that must be discovered in order to implement it.
Unless you also explain that insight in a human-understandable way through comments, it doesn’t follow that such code is easier to read than write, because the reader would then have to have the same insight to figure what the hell is going on in the code.
Unless you also explain that insight in a human-understandable way through comments, it doesn’t follow that such code is easier to read than write, because the reader would then have to have the same insight to figure what the hell is going on in the code.
For example, being given code that simulates relativity before Einstein et al. discovered it would have made discovering relativity a lot easier.
Well, yeah, code fully simulating SR and written in a decent way would, but code approximately simulating collisions of ultrarelativistic particles with hand-coded optimizations… not sure.
Unless you also explain that insight in a human-understandable way through comments, it doesn’t follow that such code is easier to read than write, because the reader would then have to have the same insight to figure what the hell is going on in the code.
For example, being given code that simulates relativity before Einstein et al. discovered it would have made discovering relativity a lot easier.
Well, yeah, code fully simulating SR and written in a decent way would, but code approximately simulating collisions of ultrarelativistic particles with hand-coded optimizations… not sure.