Please Don’t Comment Your Code

When bad practices get out of hand

Oliver Spryn
Level Up Coding
Published in
6 min readOct 20, 2021

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Letters from a game of Scrabble saying “Choose Your Words”

Code comments and “hello world” go nearly hand-in-hand in the software development world. Each of these examples embodies the simplest constructs of a language. However, after we are taught how to use said comments in our respective languages, are we ever taught how to not use them?

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