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Bill is a pro grammer (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Or you're stuck within the confines of a horrible legacy system which the business will not allow you the time to refactor/rewrite but still want your code to be somewhat readable.

But in general, I agree with your argument. When writing from scratch or improving reasonably well designed code, often documentation could be replaced by breaking it up into another function or naming variable better. It's a bit of a code smell for violating the SRP. And yet there are times that documentation is needed for the "why". Things are nuanced I guess.