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Exactly. A long time ago, I learned to write comments explaining all necessary context for my future self and for others -- exactly for this reason. Remember,
by crazygringo 9mo ago
Exactly. A long time ago, I learned to write comments explaining all necessary context for my future self and for others -- exactly for this reason.
Remember, you're not writing code just to execute. You're writing it to be read.
- h4kunamata 9mo agoI worked with people that defended the idea that code should not have comments, the code should self explain itself. I am not a developer and I completely disagree with that, the python scripts I wrote, Ansible playbook, they all have comments because 1 month down the road I no longer remember why I did what I did, was that a system limitation or software limitation or the easiest solution at the time???