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Revisiting code I wrote last year (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by LeeNeighoff@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 37 points 11 months ago

Whos the fucking idiot that wro.. oh it was me.

[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

Considering last year was six days ago.....I agree.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Writing really good comments is an under-appreciated skill.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Even though comments are very helpful, often it's even enough to name variables and methods/functions really good. At least do that. You don't want i, j and value. Believe me. You want rowCount, colCount and deliveryOption instead. You just may not know it now, but you will, when it has to be changed in a few months.

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago

Comments are good when you're doing something weird to handle an edge case or something. But yeah most of the time clear variable names, and extracting complicated code to a dedicated and clearly named function, are enough.

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

Phil Karlton

[–] aksdb@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

Where comments are useful most is in explaining why the implementation is as it is. Otherwise smart ass (your future self) will come along, rewrite it just to realize there was indeed a reason for the former implementation.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

// don't know anymore, just leave this block alone

[–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I was once like "🤨... what drugs was I on when I wrote this 🤨". Comments didn't help, I must've been under the influence of something, it didn't make any sense.

The weird thing is, it works 😂.

[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You gotta comment what drugs you were on when you wrote the code

[–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Darn, forgot to do that.

[–] CaptKoala@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

This is me with code I write now

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The script i wrote last month. I have to redo it!

[–] sagrotan@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Many years ago I wrote some puny lines that randomly and repeatedly inserted the word "documentation" as comments into code. I stumbled upon one of those abominations shortly before Christmas, I laughed so hard as I remembered. I couldn't explain to anybody why, though.

[–] the_beber@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Well you can‘t say that you didn‘t write „documentation“.