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Re:Keep your source code SIMPLE by tchaffee on Sunday November 10, 2019 @01:11PM (#21499242)
That's a good concrete example of bad comments. I suppose you could throw that in the "over-commenting" category.
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Re:Keep your source code SIMPLE by throwaway35784 on Sunday November 10, 2019 @05:05PM (#21500459)
And, strangely, it's the only response to the gp's request to define of over-commenting, yet it is downvoted to below definitions of good commenting.

So. Weird. The other responses didn't properly implement the requirement specification.

I am so confused.

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