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Experienced engineer examines comments in a legacy codebase (infosec.pub)
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[-] Mikelius@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

You have comments in your legacy codebases?? Luckyyyyy

[-] philm@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago 
// This enters the if branch if "myVar" == true
while otherVar == 42 {
    // do something
}
[-] Mikelius@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Lmao I've unfortunately seen stuff like this, where other parts of code that looked like just made up stuff had zero comments. Basically comments only where they weren't needed and lacking where they're needed

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