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Yes comments should be about intent, the implementation (code) should be obvious. Often when maintaining legacy code the most important thing is to understand what the original programmer wanted to do and why. Not that there aren't some complete idiots writing code - but you can't know that this seemingly stupid thing you see in your editor window wasn't the best decision at the time given some constraint that no longer exists now.



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