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It's clearly secondary to correctness: A program that is well-written but doesn't work right is worthless. Many hairy balls of mud have shipped to great acclaim.
Human readability & comprehension is nice for maintenance, but you don't get to maintain something that never worked right to begin with.
… Of course, Windows is existence proof that you can be successful with neither.
The point the post makes is that one can't write (or ensure that) a piece of code is correct without understanding it in the first place.
And I agree with that. Correctness is the goal, but making the code readable is the way: it comes first. Cutting corners there is a good way to shoot yourself on the foot.
A program that works right but doesn't solve the problem is also not very useful.