Having spent a few years in the technology industry, mostly developing software, I’ve been accustomed to the reality that most of my time is spent working with different teams and reviewing code written by other software developers. Over the years, I’ve had diverse experiences working with code written by different developers. These experiences have fundamentally reinforced my appreciation for clean code.
“Indeed, the ratio of time spent reading versus writing is well over 10 to 1. We are constantly reading old code as part of the effort to write new code. …[Therefore,] making it easy to read makes it easier to write.”
- from Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Uncle Bob)