>A good alternative is code without comments that communicates just as well as that code without the comments. Now this is something I could never do. Or find

>A good alternative is code without comments that communicates just as well as that code without the comments. Now this is something I could never do. Or find in other people's code. I much rather appreciate the good comment explaining to me WTF is going on, annotating the larger segments, and so on. Of course it might just be my personal limitation as a programmer that's far from the best in the craft. But to me, comments are the most time tested.