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[–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, if you need comments to explain your code, then your code is to complex. Write simple self-documenting code. The only exception is when you are forced to write a hack to work around some crappy interface. My typical comments are something like "fucking google" which makes clear that the following code is some hack for google.