>...code that is more heavily commented is better.
>I think we already knew this
Who's "we"?
In my many years of software development, I've found a very large fraction of developers use very few, or even zero comments, and it's getting worse. Just look at the posts below here: there's a bunch of people arguing that comments are useless or harmful. It's no wonder that software sucks so much these days, since apparently no one believes in documentation or code maintenance any more.
> It's no wonder that software sucks so much these days, since apparently no one believes in documentation or code maintenance any more.
I think this comment explains why software gets worse in many cases:
> Of course nowadays, this is legacy nonsense. Everything uses UTF-8 for
"char", and what doesn't is broken and terrible anyway. But the old ways
stayed with us, and the stupidity of it as well.
The problem is the "legacy nonsense" tends to accumulate over time & as people depend on it, takes a long time to finally remove.
> They are so hilariously misdesigned and
insufficient, I can't even fathom how this shit was _standardized_.
They did their best given their circumstances & abilities. Now we must forever pay the price.
> Several decades later, the moronic standard committees noticed that this
was (still is) kind of a bad situation. Instead of fixing the situation,
they added more garbage on top of it. (Probably for the sake of "compatibility").
At least they tried...
> All in all, I believe this proves that software developers as a whole
and as a culture produce worse results than drug addicted butt fucked
monkeys randomly hacking on typewriters while inhaling the fumes of a
radioactive dumpster fire fueled by chinese platsic toys for children
and Elton John/Justin Bieber crossover CDs for all eternity.
Who's "we"?
In my many years of software development, I've found a very large fraction of developers use very few, or even zero comments, and it's getting worse. Just look at the posts below here: there's a bunch of people arguing that comments are useless or harmful. It's no wonder that software sucks so much these days, since apparently no one believes in documentation or code maintenance any more.