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Re:Coding Without Comments by rw on Friday July 25, 2008 @05:24AM (#256437)
You can write a provable theorem as a stream of symbols from mathematical logic, instead of prose. But, do you really want to read the result? Code can be made clearer through abstraction, certainly, but comments are a domain specific language for helping humans understand computer programs.

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