Agreed. It's more like dense technical writing than literature.
That doesn't mean that reading it is any less important, or that writing readable code is any less important, or that code is all an ugly mess not worth reading.
It may mean that the reading pattern for code might not lend itself toward a reading group in the same way that literature does. So we might need to either spend more time reading code in solitude or develop new ways to do reading groups that work for this style of writing.
And it just seems plain ridiculous to say that people don't spend time reading code. People do read code, but they don't think about it as "reading" in the same way as someone reads a book, so they don't have it readily at hand when asked.
That doesn't mean that reading it is any less important, or that writing readable code is any less important, or that code is all an ugly mess not worth reading.
It may mean that the reading pattern for code might not lend itself toward a reading group in the same way that literature does. So we might need to either spend more time reading code in solitude or develop new ways to do reading groups that work for this style of writing.
And it just seems plain ridiculous to say that people don't spend time reading code. People do read code, but they don't think about it as "reading" in the same way as someone reads a book, so they don't have it readily at hand when asked.