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I refute Yegge thusly: Which code would you rather maintain?

• mquander 17y ago
  Surely Yegge would tell you that he would rather maintain the concise code with sparse comments. That's the whole point of the post.
  • mtts 17y ago
    But he would be lying. Yegge would rather maintain the concise code with sparse comments if and only if it were Yegge's concise code with sparse comments. If it were someone else's, he'd rather it were in fact rather heavily commented.
    • brown9-2 17y ago
      To the point where you need to rewrite 10 lines of comments when you change one increment operator? I doubt it.
    • btilly 17y ago
      You would be wrong. I have encountered all sorts of code written by others that I have to maintain. My favorite code has consistently been sparsely commented (though effectively heavily commented with good variable names and appropriate functions) while the absolute worst I've maintained was code that was so heavily commented that it was virtually impossible to see the flow of the program.