https://emadashi.com/tags/comments/ Recent content in Tags/Comments on Emad Alashi Hugo en Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:02:50 +0000 https://emadashi.com/2008/07/are-code-comments-important/ Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:02:50 +0000 https://emadashi.com/2008/07/are-code-comments-important/ <p>From the very first day I have heard about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_development" title="Agile Development">Agile development</a> and I have been hearing things like “<a href="http://blog.gravityfree.ca/2006/11/myth-of-comments.html" title="code comments are bad">code comments are not such a good thing</a>”</p> <p>The main idea behind that is that the code should be self explanatory; giving functions good names and splitting concerns into different functions.</p> <p>But what about the “why”; why this certain code is written this way? why not do it that way? and this is what I have gone through today!</p>