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10 months later bill revisits his spaghetti code. forgets absolutely everything and refuses to elaborate. this wouldn't have happened if Bill forgot to comment on his code (lemmy.world)
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[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 32 points 10 months ago

Commenting is an art. Too much and it is outright misleading after the first hotfix. Too little and only the original developer can maintain it

But uncommented code is a dick move. And, more importantly, it means you can't punt bug fixes to the intern

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