I 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 sh

I 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!