I'll go further. Comments are a code smell. They mean you've probably not modularized your code enough, or named your functions and variables descriptively enou

I'll go further. Comments are a code smell. They mean you've probably not modularized your code enough, or named your functions and variables descriptively enough. As I've approached 20 years of coding, I began to be able to count on one hand the times when I truly need to add a comment. (I don't mean the DocBlock type comments for describing functions and class interfaces, that get compiled into docs.) To all you downvoters: please do respond with examples of comments that are are counterexamples to what I said!