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How programmers comment their code (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I was rewriting some old code of mine and ended up stripping out the comments. I kept reading them instead of the code, which I had been changing, and they were irrelevant. (I added new comments back in, though a big reason to rewrite was to make the code more self-explanatory.)