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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[-] burliman@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

The code is the “what”, the comments are the “why”. It’s the mantra I use when making them. So in a fundamental way, they never repeat themselves.

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