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10 months later bill revisits his spaghetti code. forgets absolutely everything and refuses to elaborate. this wouldn't have happened if Bill forgot to comment on his code (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I don't care how much you think your code is readable, plain text comments are readable by everyone no matter the proficiency in the programming language used. That alone can make a huge difference when you're just trying to understand how someone handled a situation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Then someone needs to change something about the code and doesn't bother updating the comment. Now you still have uncommented code but with a comment that confuses instead of helping.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

IMHO the issue in this situation is not the comment but that the person updating the code didn't do his job properly which shouldn't be an excuse not to do it from the start.

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