I’m Bill I don’t comment my code (except complex parts), instead I try to make code clear, including using proper variable and function names and try to keep functions short. I don’t think I ever got lost in my own code in my 20+ years of experience. Even got complements about it.
The programming language is meant for humans to read/write, if you need to put comments to understand your code then your code sucks.
Use comments to describe the philisophy of the code, the why. And any non obvious extended relationships. Risk. Etc.
Comments on function are typically a waste of space.
I think that makes you Phil, not Bill. Thanks for the good work you do Phil.
Bill never revisits his code.
Bill is
a contractorsmart.A technical debt escapist.
Bill changes jobs every two years to outrun the crushing weight of institutional responsibility.
NGL that is one of the best parts about being a contractor.
So many hackjobs. Sorry maintainers.
We all envy you more than we hate you
Remembered*
Bill DID forget.
Classic comments.
Code is spaghetti.
Comments describe what it used to do.
Comments are no longer relevant.Comments should be about how/what a code block does something.
Not what a line of code does
I don’t care how much you think your code is readable, plain text comments are readable by everyone no matter the proficiency in the programming language used. That alone can make a huge difference when you’re just trying to understand how someone handled a situation.
Then someone needs to change something about the code and doesn’t bother updating the comment. Now you still have uncommented code but with a comment that confuses instead of helping.
IMHO the issue in this situation is not the comment but that the person updating the code didn’t do his job properly which shouldn’t be an excuse not to do it from the start.
This is Bill.
Bill doesn’t need to minify his code, he names things using a single character even in compiled languages.
Bill is a heckin chad who can guess what the code does merely by looking at types and control flow.
Be like Bill
I’m no heckin chad like bill ima soyjak :(
I started coding with TurboBasic. My favorite thing about TB was that you could have variable names of any length but the compiler only used the first two letters - and case insensitive at that. So “Douchebag” and “doorknocker” looked like different variables but were actually the same thing.
The reason there are no comments in the code? Written by ChatGPT.
It appears you haven’t used chat gpt for coding help.
