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Code comments are (mostly) a violation of DRY (danielrotter.at)

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Comments in code are quite often a code smell. Let’s see what is suboptimal about comments and talk about some strategies to avoid them.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess one could understand why the author believes this if his experience has been (mostly) limited to poorly commented code.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have also seen well commented code, but in this article I concentrate on the bad ones. Are you saying you have never seen a bad code comment?