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Re:Reasons to avoid code comments by shadowmint on Saturday July 13, 2013 @07:21AM (#6037289)
...so you're saying, no one will read the documentation, because they'll all be looking at the documentation?

You've lost me I'm afraid.

(unless you're saying that api documentation, specifically, isn't very useful compared to say, examples, in which case, you're agreeing with me, because useless api documentation is what you get when you run a documentation tool over a code base without annotations...)

Re:Reasons to avoid code comments by TeMPOraL on Saturday July 13, 2013 @07:53AM (#6037344)
> ...so you're saying, no one will read the documentation, because they'll all be looking at the documentation?

I think he means that devs won't be reading documentation like a book, chapter by chapter, trying to comprehend what API does, but instead they will look at tutorials and code snippets, and enter your documentation at random points via Google / StackOverflow links, mostly in cases when something is not working.