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		davidw on Jan 31, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reducing technical debt by valuing comments as muc... > should read like natural language The history of programming is full of that notion and it never really works out. See: COBOL, SQL, and so on. I think we can all agree that code that is easy to read is better, but sometimes the 'why' needs spelling out.

randomdata on Jan 31, 2023 [–]

Totally agree. I even said so at the end. You would have noticed if the comments didn't get in the way. :)

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