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by akbar501 4484 days ago
I totally agree. When I first started programming my comments largely echo'd the code, so I saw them as less valuable. Now I'm able to stand back from the code and write comments that reflect the "why", and let the code do the talking for the "what / how".

I see this a lot where the more experienced someone is the more they comment, but also where the comments are higher quality.