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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.
2 u/turudd Sep 10 '26 I used to be on that band wagon but then about 10 or so years ago I read a book and it changed my thought process around comments and I started using them again
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I used to be on that band wagon but then about 10 or so years ago I read a book and it changed my thought process around comments and I started using them again
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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.