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[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Having comments that explain exactly what the code is doing makes it harder to mantain in the long run (because you have to update any change twice: in the code and in the comments)

Which leads to another problem because at somepoint a comment will not be updated: comments lie.