Coding in Academia

Interesting opinions about coding in academia presented here.

My opinion on coding is that code should read like prose, but instead of verses (~code paragraphs) one should use function calls. Kent Beck's books implementation patterns and test-driven programming are good reads (e.g. his thoughts about symmetry in code). Hm, perhaps it could be a thought to learn test-driven programming before object-orientation?

Have you ever thought about that precise naming of methods (or comments for code paragraphs) increases in difficulty with number of lines (i.e. harder to name something that does a lot of stuff)?