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Introduction Anyone that has ever taken a programming class or read a beginners book on the subject know how important it is to write comments in your code. But is that really true? In this post I’m going to discuss/question the common practice of writing comments in your code. Bad comments A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by an old friend of mine that runs a construction company. They have an old custom system that they’ve had since the mid or late ’90s sometime. He wanted some slight modifications made to this system, but the consultant business that … Continue reading To comment or not to comment