"Every 3 to 7 lines of code you'll find some amount of editorializing. Maybe every few hundred lines you'll find a good joke too."
I think there's the issue. In applications I write, every 3-7 lines of code is refactored into a method that is named exactly what it does, and every few hundred lines of code (usually much less) is in a separate file and class named on what he does. Broken out like that, there's not many places to put a comment that would be of any use.
But not broken out like that, of course you're going to need comments. But I think you'll find that comments aren't even enough.
"I know what the code says. But tell me the intent."
I think unit tests and expressive code work much better to achieve this goal.
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"Every 3 to 7 lines of code you'll find some amount of editorializing. Maybe every few hundred lines you'll find a good joke too."
I think there's the issue. In applications I write, every 3-7 lines of code is refactored into a method that is named exactly what it does, and every few hundred lines of code (usually much less) is in a separate file and class named on what he does. Broken out like that, there's not many places to put a comment that would be of any use.
But not broken out like that, of course you're going to need comments. But I think you'll find that comments aren't even enough.
"I know what the code says. But tell me the intent."
I think unit tests and expressive code work much better to achieve this goal.
Yes excactly!!!