That's true for most languages. However, some languages are so well designed for maintainability that they barely need verbose comments. Ada is such a language

That's true for most languages. However, some languages are so well designed for maintainability that they barely need verbose comments. Ada is such a language. I have no problems to understand my own Ada code written 10 years ago. However, I had difficulties to understand my own Haskell code just one week later :-)