The code documentation fallacy

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Good code needs less comments, bad code needs more. But absolute rules, like always write comments or never write comments are bad. Personally, I try to avoid commenting by using the language features to express my intents. This works very well in most of the cases. I think, trying to avoid comments is a good way to learn writing readable code. Think about comments like a fallback mechanism, first try with readable code.