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Evening folks,

Not sure which board this question/rant belongs so I am just going to put it on here.

I would love to know how people generally feel about comments in code as a means to describe what the code does. In my workplace that I only started at about 2 months ago, I have already had about half a dozen discussions about why I think code comments are a) largely a waste of time b) distraction from writing the actual code c) give license to a developer to be sloppy with their code.

Kevlin Henney's talk on this subject is pretty much along the same lines but there must be some bigger picture that I must be missing that my colleagues in office know that they are forcing me write comments in code. I have been developing software for about 11 years professionally and 15 years if you include the pizza and soda filled days of academia and I have transitioned from code commenter to just writing clean enough code that tells the reader what it does (thanks to Uncle Bob!!) so I find it incredibly backward having to go back to writing comments just to save my job.

I do understand in some cases comments might be necessary where the code intrinsically is complex and cannot be refactored any more but putting documenting comments on every class, function and property just for the sake of it seems ridiculous. I also understand publicly consumed APIs need to have documentation so client developers can build apps on top of them but anything beyond these 2 use cases, is stupid IMHO.

Thoughts, outrages, feelings?

Cheers
IEC
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