[ef4]

This is one of the reasons that programmers who haven't read much of other people's code are a liability. They're as lost as novelists who don't read books.

The difference comes down to empathy: if you can get inside the head of your future readers, you'll know when to comment, and what to name that function, and how long the functions should be, etc...

[pekk]

So can we say the same about people who try to lobby everyone not to use any comments just in case they might be wrong? Because a helpful comment can be a very helpful thing to a reader of code