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comments suck (Score:1)
Strangely, I agree with Graham's point. Sparse, on-point comments are wonderful. Code that's too tricksy to grok should be rewritten. From my own experience, I find that my perl vocabulary has shrunk while making the programs easier for me to pick up months later. Also, debuggers work on code, not comments. That's to say, a reader needs to grok the code not what the comments say about the code. And the debugger is an excellent way to understand how the code really works. I recall exploring both Tk an
Re:comments suck (Score:2)
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