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title: People read more code than they write
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date: 2024-08-07
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permalink: daily/2024/08/07/people-read-more-code-than-they-write
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tags:
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- software-development
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- clean-code
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People read more code than they write.
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Which do you do more?
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Read code or write code?
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If you include colleagues' code, logs and CI pipeline output, open-source software, books, courses, tutorials, examples, videos, live streams, meetup and conference talks and blog posts (just to think of some), you definitely read more code than you write.
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Which is why it's important to [optimise for readability][0].
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[0]: {{site.url}}/daily/2024/08/06/computers-dont-care
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