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Bill is a pro grammer (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago by CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] pewpew@feddit.it 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Code looks better without comments

[+] BaardFigur@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Comment only in extraordinary situations, when something you read can confuse someone. And by that I mean the business logic, not that you used a method that's confusing to people since they only know the basics of the language.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Honestly, after a few years of working with juniors (and being one myself before that), I have to disagree with the last part. Sure, it's fine for solo projects but people's programming skills can vary heavily. I know people who will pull the wildest C++ compile time tricks you've ever seen, but a pointer to a pointer would somehow break their brain.

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

I usually comment on whole groups of lines of code, so the goal of each part of the code is clear

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I would disagree. I love to use comments to format my code and separate the sections. I think it's so beautiful. Also I love when libraries have ASCII art in the comments at the top of the main file lol. It makes the code more fun in my opinion.

I went to college with a guy who would treat the code as art when presenting projects. His code was always beautiful. Not super functional but always beautiful. It always stuck with me. I want my code to always be functional and beautiful. Easy to read and a pleasure to work with. That's my goal at least. Comments help with that.

Also it depends on what the code is for haha