Comment on Left to Right Programming
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 days agoPeople don’t, in fact, read code from top to bottom, left to right
100% this.
This false premise is also why a few (objectively wrong) people defend writing long essays: functions with hundreds of lines and files with thousands; saying “then you don’t have to go back and forth to read it”, when in fact, no one should be reading it like a novel in the first place.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The blog post wasn’t about reading, but about writing. And people usually do write top-to-bottom, left-to-right.
The whole point of the blog post was to write code that the IDE can help you with when writing. It didn’t go into readability even once.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 days ago
the last section only mentions readability
squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 days ago
What about all the other sections?