[tacitusarc]

My metric for clean code is how quickly a developer unfamiliar with it can understand it

[agumonkey]

It seems that anything successful, for any given era, is the one thing that minimize time to understanding better than others.

[simonblack]

Much as we denigrate COBOL, that is still its greatest advantage. Yes, it's wordy, yes it's old. Yes, it needs to be really updated. But it's still easier for a new hire to understand the COBOL old code than any other old code.

[Ygg2]

I've never had any problem digging into any Python codebase.

Even magic stuff like `@attributes` is easily searchable.