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mhurron
3752 days ago
It's amazing, their whole complaint is solved by proper software development practices - Comment your code.
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prodigal_erik
3752 days ago
Code that's clear enough not to need a comment is better than code that has a comment. Comments can be outdated or mistaken and they consume screen real estate.
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mhurron
3752 days ago
You still need to document intent. No code is self documenting.
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dllthomas
3751 days ago
In some cases, naming may be sufficient to communicate intent.
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CaptSpify
3752 days ago
To be fair: What is proper practice, is far from what is common practice
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