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Re:Ask HN: Was Donald Knuth completely wrong about good prog... by 888666 on Thursday November 17, 2022 @10:20AM (#33640084)
I don't believe I comment excessively, but in code reviews I've only ever been told to remove comments rather than to add more while working as a software engineer.
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Re:Ask HN: Was Donald Knuth completely wrong about good prog... by whatwherewhy on Thursday November 17, 2022 @11:25AM (#33641193)
I write programs cca 2:1 comments:code and it is consistently praised for its readability during code reviews and by later maintainers that have to add features to it.
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