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How programmers comment their code (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 months ago (27 children)

I had a old job that told me that code is "self documenting" if you write it "good enough". And that comments were unnecessary.

It always annoyed the heck out of me. Comments are imo more helpful than hurtful typically.

Is it just me? Or am I weird? Lol.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Its definitely a balance. Good code shouldn't need much commenting, but sometimes you have to do something for a reason that isn't immediately obvious and that's when comments are most useful. If you're just explaining what a snippet does instead of why you're doing it that way, there's probably more work to be done.

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