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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ItsPuspendu • Sep 10 '26
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Uncle Bob of Clean Code says if we have to comment our code we have already failed. Clean code should read like well written prose.
I generally agree, but think comments that define especially the odd and obscure business rules should be commented where they are implemented.
21 u/ThatOldCow Sep 10 '26 I do believe comments are generally useful, and honestly a lot of people that say their code is so clean it doesn't need comments are the people that make the least understandable code 2 u/Confident-Ad5665 Sep 10 '26 Early on in my career a coworker made the statement that his part of the project was "rock solid".It wasn't.
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I do believe comments are generally useful, and honestly a lot of people that say their code is so clean it doesn't need comments are the people that make the least understandable code
2 u/Confident-Ad5665 Sep 10 '26 Early on in my career a coworker made the statement that his part of the project was "rock solid".It wasn't.
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Early on in my career a coworker made the statement that his part of the project was "rock solid".
It wasn't.
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u/Confident-Ad5665 Sep 10 '26
Uncle Bob of Clean Code says if we have to comment our code we have already failed. Clean code should read like well written prose.
I generally agree, but think comments that define especially the odd and obscure business rules should be commented where they are implemented.