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"The coder" probably should spend time talking to customers, testing designs, interacting with their peers, reading other code, learning. None of these contrib

• maratd 13y ago
  > a theoretical maximum output of SLoC. If that's you're metric, I don't think it's a good one. That's certainly not my metric and I definitely don't believe it's a good one. My metric is readability. The ability to return to a piece of code 6 months down the road and be able to understand precisely what's happening. > I have lots of challenges and bottlenecks. The time to type comments isn't one of them. Oh, I know. It's very easy to add a comment that you think will help clarify things down the road, but instead, ends up being more cryptic than your code. By definition, a comment is something short and half-thought out. It's a comment. As I said in the post up above, stay away from comments. If you have to annotate, write documentation instead.
  • WayneDB 13y ago
    That's not the definition of the word "comment" at all. Who is the authority on whether commentless code is good or not? Could this possibly be completely subjective? Hmmm. > Oh, I know. It's very easy to add a comment...but [it] ends up being more cryptic than your code. You don't know that :)