I use the word "english" but really my argument is language agnostic. Choose the language relative to the audience is my moto.
>I have in my day job some code we got from Korea. I'm told by those who have spent the time to understand it that it is good code. But since it was written in Korean it is a level harder to figure out.
Exactly this is my point. Abbreviations, lack of verbosity in naming and shortcuts might as well be Korean for the reader. It really doesn't matter how good the code is.... the understandability of your naming is by far more important.
>I have in my day job some code we got from Korea. I'm told by those who have spent the time to understand it that it is good code. But since it was written in Korean it is a level harder to figure out.
Exactly this is my point. Abbreviations, lack of verbosity in naming and shortcuts might as well be Korean for the reader. It really doesn't matter how good the code is.... the understandability of your naming is by far more important.
Totally agreed.