Reflections on
Daryl Posnett, Abram Hindle, Prémkumar Dévanbu · ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes · 2021
At UC Davis, in late 2010, we noticed that developers frequently debated the topic of code readability and style. Practitioners often expressed strong, off-the-cuff judgments regarding the read- ability of code, but mostly disagreed on the precise attributes of readability. While developers clearly cared about the factors they believed related to readability, the concept was not well defined.