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How programmers comment their code (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 68 points 6 months ago

The best comments are "why" comments, the runner up is "how" comments if high-level enough, and maybe just don't write "what" comments at all because everyone reading your code knows how to read code.

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