Write Comments. Please.

Michael Landis
Level Up Coding
Published in
3 min readMar 29, 2021

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  • “If you need to write comments, you need to rewrite your code.”
  • “Your code should be self-documenting.”
  • “Comments never stay up-to-date.”
  • “Commenting is a waste of time.”

How many times have we heard these and similar pronouncements? It’s enough to make you believe that all code comments are bad.

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