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Re:Reducing technical debt by valuing comments as much as code by davidw on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @03:52PM (#34601889)
> should read like natural language

The history of programming is full of that notion and it never really works out. See: COBOL, SQL, and so on.

I think we can all agree that code that is easy to read is better, but sometimes the 'why' needs spelling out.

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Re:Reducing technical debt by valuing comments as much as code by randomdata on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @03:53PM (#34601907)
Totally agree. I even said so at the end. You would have noticed if the comments didn't get in the way. :)
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