Funny, i mentioned this a few days ago. I was going to do some googling on other interesting code quality/dev productivity/language metrics, but, uh, never got around to it.

It seems to me that in the first few passes on-sighting or sight reading code (as climbers and pianists call it), you're looking for easy to comprehend structures, and blocking off difficult to decipher, simultaneously, so maybe a bimodal distributions at work here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4926313