[slededit]

The way "normal" people tend to enter into programming is by starting with some example code and modifying it to their purpose. In this sort of scenario readability is very much a benefit.

[labster]

As opposed to software developers, who take some existing application code and refactor it to their purpose.

[slededit]

I would expect a software developer to be able to write code from scratch (when necessary), but then again I'm old fashioned like that.

[masukomi]

not when you're in a language you've never used before...