> But if your software is successful (especially if it gets distributed to other people), most of the people running it won't be the developers, they'll only be

> But if your software is successful (especially if it gets distributed to other people), most of the people running it won't be the developers, they'll only be operating it. The biggest problem is what when you wrote a code for a 'totally obvious message' you yourself was in the context. Years, year, heck even weeks later you would stare at it and wonder 'why tf I didn't wrote something more verbose?'. Anecdote: I wrote some supporting scripts to 'integrate' two systems three times - totally oblivious the second and the third times what I already did it. Both times I was somewhere 60% when I though 'wait I totally recognize this code but I just wrote it! What in Deja-vu-nation?!'.