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akkartik · 4088 days ago · link · · parent · post: Yes, your code does need comments.

Personally I find the notion of reading code without first running it to be meaningless[1]. We're unable to make sense of that program not because somebody didn't put some squiggles at the ends of lines prefixed by the right header, but because no muchine can run them, so we can't play with making changes and seeing what happens.

[1] Cue Dijkstra rolling over in his grave.

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