What Is Readable Code?

Code creates interfaces. But code itself is also an interface.

Janeen Neri
Algorithm and Blues
10 min readFeb 11, 2019

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For something so important, code readability is shockingly ill-defined. We often present it as a grab bag of rules: Use expressive variable names. When a function gets big, split it into smaller functions. Use standard design patterns.

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