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It would be really nice if there was any data this article could could cite, pro or anti comment to see if it makes any measurable difference to your team’s mar
by tippytippytango 4y ago
It would be really nice if there was any data this article could could cite, pro or anti comment to see if it makes any measurable difference to your team’s market competitiveness.
The data they cite on TODO items isn’t relevant as the experiment lacks any controls and is thus non-scientific.
The best we can do given the dearth of data is consult the market for answers. There are successful software companies/projects/individuals that subscribe to either philosophy (sometimes simultaneously) and the market doesn’t seem to care as it does about how good the product actually is. Stuff like this is bike shedding at best, at worst it’s a kind of virtue signaling to some group in an attempt to appear as a blessed expert.
- pron 4y agoWhat you say is true, but then again very little on the cost side of programming has a big bottom-line impact because software is such a high margin industry. So this topic, like many others in software, is largely a matter of personal taste, but that's not to say all opinions are equally distributed among programmers. If most programmers find it more pleasant to read code with good comments, then writing them is a nice courtesy.