There is a (large, I believe) aspect of good code that is fundamentally qualitative & almost literary. This annoys a lot of computer programmers (and academics) who are inclined to the mathematical mindset and want quantitative answers instead.
I love dostoyevsky and wodehouse, both wrote very well, but also very differently. While I don't think coding is quite that open a playing field, I have worked on good code bases that feel very different qualitatively. It often takes me a while to "get" the style of a code base, just as a new author make take a while for me to get.
I love dostoyevsky and wodehouse, both wrote very well, but also very differently. While I don't think coding is quite that open a playing field, I have worked on good code bases that feel very different qualitatively. It often takes me a while to "get" the style of a code base, just as a new author make take a while for me to get.