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[–] Dropkick3038@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

And isn't it such a dangerous overlap! The coder whose writing (in their native language) is unclear, repetitive, convoluted, or hard to follow too often produces code with the same qualities. It's even worse when the same coder believes "code is self-documenting" without considering why. Code self-documents with careful and deliberate effort, and in my experience, it is the really good writers who are most capable of expressing code in this way.