Code should be the one version of the truth, don’t add comments

“Code never lies; comments sometimes do.” — Ron Jeffries

Code should be self documenting, the purpose of classes, methods and variables should be obvious that you can understand it in six months time.

The reason I don’t like comments in code is because you have to maintain the code and the comments. I have seen examples where developers have changed the code but not…

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Code should be the one version of the truth, don’t add comments

“Code never lies; comments sometimes do.” - Ron Jeffries Code should be self documenting, the purpose of classes, methods and variables should be obvious that you can understand it in six months time. The reason I don’t like comments in code is because you have to maintain the code and the comments.

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