Why Not Comments | Hacker News

I saw someone quip (on twitter, I think) many years ago something like:"A junior engineer writes comments that explain what the code does. A mid-level engineer writes comments that explain why the code does what it does. A senior engineer writes comments that explain why the code isn't written in another way." (except punchier, of course. I'm not doing the quip justice here) > writes comments that

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“A junior engineer writes comments that explain what the code does. A mid-level engineer writes comments that explain why the code does what it does. A senior engineer writes comments that explain why ”