Duration : 01:02:28
Mark Siegman gave a talk on improving software development productivity, focusing on the issue of spending more time reading code than writing it. He used Robert C. Martins quote that the ratio of code reading to writing is 10:1 to illustrate the problem, and showed that even a 50% reduction in writing time would only equate to a 4.5% productivity gain. Instead, he suggests improving code readability to increase productivity. To understand how code readability affects productivity, Siegman discusses how the brain processes code when reading it instead of giving instructions on how to make code more readable.