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Exactly. And then the question remains: why? Why hate comments so much? I never got that

• rwallace 5y ago
  I would conjecture that it has two components: 1. Ancestral memory of programming in languages like assembly or early Fortran where your code was going to be spaghetti because the language was capable of little else, so it had to be drenched in comments that would be unnecessary in a better language. 2. Overreaction to personal memory of overzealous professors who demanded assignments be drenched in excessive comments.
  • benrbray 5y ago
    Related to #2, I'm still recovering from high school AP English. We had to meet quotas for a certain number of underlines / notes written in the margin per page. For the better part of a decade I haven't been able to pick up fiction without the feeling that I'm working through a textbook.