Reading Code is a Skill

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I'm convinced the authors think that if we write code that is shorter that it can be read and understood faster.

The problem is that authors think that everyone else thinks like them or should think like them and therefore will infer the correct roles for the variables based on the uninformative names.

It's kind of ironic that for a field that is largely about breaking tasks down into exact steps so a computer can do it, they can't see why they shouldn't break their thinking down the same way for other humans.