Most of my comments are for me 6 months from now when I will be asked to debug or modify the code again, and I surely will ask myself "what the heck was I thinking when I wrote this"? It happens to me all the time.
I'm dealing with 20 years worth of legacy code - some methods have 20 - 30 optional parameters and almost no comments anywhere - it takes hours to make even minor changes because the person who wrote it thought it was so obvious what their code does. And then on top of that, single and 2 letter variables names all over the place... Refactoring that mess is a nightmare of technical debt.
If you don't comment your code you are some combination of lazy, narcissist, and noob or someone who just thinks that they are smarter than everybody else, and you may well be. But the people that wrote the mess I'm fixing weren't that smart - but they thought they were.
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Most of my comments are for me 6 months from now when I will be asked to debug or modify the code again, and I surely will ask myself "what the heck was I thinking when I wrote this"? It happens to me all the time.
I'm dealing with 20 years worth of legacy code - some methods have 20 - 30 optional parameters and almost no comments anywhere - it takes hours to make even minor changes because the person who wrote it thought it was so obvious what their code does. And then on top of that, single and 2 letter variables names all over the place... Refactoring that mess is a nightmare of technical debt.
If you don't comment your code you are some combination of lazy, narcissist, and noob or someone who just thinks that they are smarter than everybody else, and you may well be. But the people that wrote the mess I'm fixing weren't that smart - but they thought they were.