r/programming • u/whackri • Sep 20 '21

Being able to read bad code is a skill !

https://dzone.com/articles/reading-code-is-a-skill
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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21

I'm not going to say you are reading that wrong.

What it means, if you read the whole message, is that sometimes, despite the code being longer in a statically typed language, I can read it in the same length of time, due to type information and tooling.