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Discussion on: Which contentious opinions in programming actually matter?

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@jarxg

Comments are gold for people learning by hacking somebody else's code, i.e. almost everybody at some point.

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Dave Jacoby

They can be.

The code I am currently refactoring is much more commented about how it used to work like A but now works like B, but not what A or B actually do, much less what the whole thing does.