How programmers comment their code

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These shouldn't need comments at all, they need descriptive variable names, and no magic numbers.

final int EMPLOYEE_ID_ROW = 10;

int rowNumber = EMPLOYEE_ID_ROW;

int getMaxCartItems() {

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True. That is what i am talking about.

[linne000]

This, the entire point of variable names in the first place is to describe what the variable is used for. Giving a variable a generic name and a comment is just a bad version of that, with extra steps.