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		Confusion on July 23, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I've never seen a language's style guide recommend... `A few precious comments stuck in there can help the next guy [..]` More than spending that time on improving the code?

peaton on July 23, 2014 [–]

Do you really think the time spend writing a comment is comparable to improving the code? Personally, I can't think of an occasion where that would have been true.

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