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Chad Fowler

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Is Ruby Readable? Posted: Aug 16, 2004 7:30 PM
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A very interesting post by Michael Neumann (who also maintains a fabulous site with hundreds of programming language examples), where he walks through various aspects of the Ruby programming language with his (not-a-programmer) girlfriend and asks her to explain what different pieces of sample code mean.

She (and Ruby) do remarkably well. Kind of a neat idea.

I’ve said for years that (in the Java world) at a certain layer of your application’s design, an interesting test of its readability/maintainability is whether or not your (not-a-programmer) customer(s) can read and understand it. I would hate to see how some of the projects I’ve worked on would stand up to such a test—especially the Java ones.

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