I come to a conclusion that the main reason why some programmers argue against comments is just laziness. Writing comments requires an effort. Being smart the

I come to a conclusion that the main reason why some programmers argue against comments is just laziness. Writing comments requires an effort. Being smart they can find multiple reasons why their don't have to do this. Of course it is possible to intentionally create a harmful comment, but if you trying to write a useful comment it is likely will be useful for most readers. In my career there was a lot of situations when a small comment would have saved me time - I've spend many minutes and even hours to discover something a code author knew but was too lazy to put into comments. I don't remember a single case when I suffered from an outdated/incorrect comment (though in this discussion such situations are mentioned).