> This might be unusual but I would prefer to read someone's mental model of how the code works than the code itself.
The hypothesis under Peter Naur's (the N on BNF) "Programming as Theory Building" paper is that transmitting (by talking) the mental model is far more important than other format of documentation to understand a system.
The hypothesis under Peter Naur's (the N on BNF) "Programming as Theory Building" paper is that transmitting (by talking) the mental model is far more important than other format of documentation to understand a system.