Andrez Sainz de Aja writes that comments are a code smell: they make us lazy. Instead of using comments to convey intent, the coding should. But that is hard, so it is easier to write dumb coding and just put the intent into comments.

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    17 days ago

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    But I agree with your thesis. Good programmers are good at maximizing code understandability so as to minimize the need for comments.