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Beautiful article. Love the advice at the end!: "What’s much more useful is recording what the deep insights are, and storing them for recollection later. Beca
by riazrizvi 10y ago
Beautiful article. Love the advice at the end!:
"What’s much more useful is recording what the deep insights are, and storing them for recollection later. Because every important mathematical idea has a deep insight, and these insights are your best friends. They’re your mathematical “nose,” and they’ll help guide you through the mansion."
- abc_lisper 10y agoI can't think of a better argument to goad programmers into writing code comments, especially for elegant code. For some reason, programmers think good code should be self explanatory. It doesn't have to - if your insight is outside the flow (or the argument) of your code. I see a lot of Java code written like this; if the programmer's job is to multiply two numbers, they add number a number b times, and say comments are not needed!