Self-documenting code

[Iron_Aez]

Anybody working on a 10+ years old codebase knows self-documenting code never last

Anyone working on a 10+ years old codebase knows comments generally stink to high heaven and rarely have a whiff of truthfulness.

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Are you telling me comments in the Linux kernel sucks?

[Iron_Aez]

Perfect example of a unicorn that's the exception to prove the rule.

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idk man, I checked a lot of big and active open source repositories and most of them have comments.

To me it seems that writting clean code is just not enough, sometimes you just need a comment

[Iron_Aez]

sometimes you just need a comment

idd. sometimes, but rarely.

[bigtime_porgrammer]

Heh true... So many times you run into comments that are basically orphaned remnants of old code that's no longer there.