Chapter 1, Problem 16RQ

Explanation of Solution

Importance of readability to writability:

Both readability and writability greatly affects reliability of a program.

• A language which uses non-natural keyword or statements to write algorithms is more likely to be error prone.
• These unnatural approaches may not be correct in all situations. The easier a program is to write, it is more likely to be correct.
• Readability affects writability in both development and maintenance phases of the software cycle.

Currently in industry, about 10% work is about coding and rest 90% of the work is about maintaining the already existing codes...