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by freyrs3 4566 days ago
What would objectively define "readability"? I hear this word thrown around a lot without much thought given to what it means. As far as I can tell whether a person considers a language "readable" is really only correlated with whether they were first taught a language with similar lexical syntax. People who were taught Scheme consider sexp based languages more readable, and people who were taught C/Java prefer semicolon delimited block-like languages.
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When someone says "readability" I have come to realize they mean: "I can read now".