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The number of times I've seen obscure code that would have been elucidated by a good comment is vastly higher than the number of times I've seen outdated commen
by AlotOfReading 4y ago
The number of times I've seen obscure code that would have been elucidated by a good comment is vastly higher than the number of times I've seen outdated comments.
Funnily enough, most of the outdated comments I can remember were dead docs links despite that being a very common 'solution' to the problem of outdated comments.
- osigurdson 4y agoMy experience is the opposite for the most part.
- AlotOfReading 4y agoWe might read different kinds of code, perhaps? I do lots of systems work where obscure hacks to work around toolchain and hardware issues are common.