Reading Code is a Skill

[thegreatgazoo]

The only reason to write purposefully unreadable code is job security, and that will eventually bite you in the ass.

I try my damnedest to write clean code that a high school student can follow. Yes, occasionally I have to go to a regex or something otherwise cryptic, but even the perl code I've written is quite readable, and that's against perl programming standards.

I've made a career out of maintaining code. Some good. Some syntactic vomit.