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dorianm on April 14, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Keeping track of technical debt in source code

Maybe every comment is a TODO, as some better, clearer, simpler code wouldn't need comments?

andrewfong on April 14, 2017 [–]

http://ericholscher.com/blog/2017/jan/27/code-is-self-docume...

tchaffee on April 14, 2017 | [–]

Lately I've been finding a thorough test suite to be better at documenting code than comments. But I have to chuckle at "self documenting" every time I hear it.

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