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What is interesting about reading this discussion is that all of the 'examples' used in order to show that comments are bad are totally implausible. On the other side, the situation of 'no comments at all' is actually ubiquitous, in reality.

Writing out what you are doing takes a little work, and requires at least briefly thinking about it. It also means you can be embarrassed if your code is doing something irrational or unintended, and looking at everything again when you make major breaking changes.

By Occam's Razor, it seems more likely that complaining about comments is driven by an unwillingness to produce them more than actual practical problems created for others by their presence.