Code Layout Matters

There’s research to show the we all spend much more of our programming time navigating and reading code — finding where to make the change — than actually typing, so that’s what we want to optimize for.

A non-programmer friend once remarked that code looks like poetry. I get that feeling from really good code, that everything in the text has a purpose and that it’s there to help me understand the idea. Unfortunately, writing code doesn’t have the same romantic image as writing poetry.