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Re:Coding Without Comments by comatose_kid on Friday July 25, 2008 @12:12AM (#256284)
Code without comments is better than code with outdated comments - this happens quite frequently.
Re:Coding Without Comments by ajross on Friday July 25, 2008 @10:13AM (#256613)
Amen. Comments lie. This happens all the time. Programmers who try to maintain code by reference to the comments will get it wrong. You have to debug the code. Comments, at most, should be a guide to what happens where.