I think the "never use comments" trend came from folks who'd realised "comments lie, code never does". E.g. developers might forget to update comments when the

I think the "never use comments" trend came from folks who'd realised "comments lie, code never does". E.g. developers might forget to update comments when they fix a bug. There are also the "// set b to 0" brigade, which is an exaggeration but makes the point that commenting the painfully obvious is a trap too many fall into. I think there was also an argument that methods called "setWidgetsToMaximumSoThatStartOfDayChecksWorkOnWeekends()" were a Good Thing, and definitively Self Documenting, a viewpoint which seems (thankfully) to be losing popularity.