[ken]

> When you're a small startup, what matters is the expressiveness of your language, and the ability do do a lot of things very very quickly. Type safety, performance, readability, those things don't matter.

I’ve never worked on a program so small that readability didn’t matter. I consider it a crucial ingredient of expressiveness and development speed.

Though your perspective could explain a few of the more atrocious code bases I’ve seen.

[jacquesm]

During exploratory programming I don't care at all about readability, just about find a path - any path - to something that works. As soon as I have that readability starts to matter and the first order of battle is then to refactor out all the dead ends and to make the whole thing look good. That's because the project now has long term perspective.