Is code more dense than English? Why do I understand more overall from this blog post than I would if I studied the codebase of the CLR for hours and hours.
I think it's to do with mental models. If developers were on all the same page of understanding the underlying mental models, we could all understand eachother's code because we all understood the same underlying things.
Yes, I would say code is usually denser than English. But sometimes it's not. This unevenness is I think part of the problem. You breeze through some parts, and stop and think through some others. It's unnatural.
I prefer reading documentation or technical deep dives - such as this one
https://mattwarren.org/2017/02/07/The-68-things-the-CLR-does...
Is code more dense than English? Why do I understand more overall from this blog post than I would if I studied the codebase of the CLR for hours and hours.
I think it's to do with mental models. If developers were on all the same page of understanding the underlying mental models, we could all understand eachother's code because we all understood the same underlying things.