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Episode 520: John Ousterhout on A Philosophy of Software Design

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Is Every Comment a Failure?

Comets should describe things that are not obvious from the code. If you really want to hide complexity, you have to have comments to do that. The alternative is you have to read the code of the majel in order to understand it. You haven't hidden any complexity. Soi, i'm a very strong advocate of comments. It does increase your confidence, which is which is good.

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