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title: Top 10 reasons to not comment your code
id: 272
html_url: "https://acmcsuf.com/blog/272"
discussion_url: "https://github.com/EthanThatOneKid/acmcsuf.com/discussions/272"
author: "AaronLieb (https://github.com/AaronLieb)"
labels: []
created: "2022-01-25T03:02:22.000Z"
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Top 10 reasons to not comment your code
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1.) It makes the code longer
2.) It makes the code uglier (its a weird gray)
3.) How do you even comment (its different for every language)
4.) no one be reading your code
10.) your comments are bad anyways

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