Code is not literature because literature only contains the highlights worth knowing where code has to provide the comprehensive instructions for everything to operate.
A good code reader should be like a tour guide, and a good tour guide doesn't visit every single building and street in a neighborhood but rather describes the historical context of the neighborhood and then visits a few interesting places.
A good code reader should be like a tour guide, and a good tour guide doesn't visit every single building and street in a neighborhood but rather describes the historical context of the neighborhood and then visits a few interesting places.