Code Is Not Literature (2014)
&gt; The biggest lesson so far is that code is very dense. A half hour presentation is just enough time to present maybe a dozen meaty lines of code and one main idea. It is also almost certainly the case that the presenters, who have to actually really dig down into a piece of code, get more out of it than anybody. But it does seem that a good presentation can at least expose people to the main ideas and maybe give them a head start if they do decide to read the code themselves.<p>Which exposes the disconnect: A computer program is not about expressing an idea; it&#x27;s about doing a thing. It&#x27;s a very specific set of instructions that explain how to do a thing; often having to handle corner cases that a human would not need explained to them.