A few weeks back, my column on the value of comments in code caught a lot of comments itself. To a certain extent, I feel like Dirty Harry in Magnum Force: "I'm afraid you've misjudged me"…but not ...

Peter looks at how rewriting some complex code -- purely to make it easier to read -- eliminates the need for writing comments. He even adds a comment to some code. In a previous column, I discussed ...

Code documentation — is there anything more exciting than spending your time writing extensive comments? If I had to guess, your answer is probably somewhere along the lines of “uhm, yes, everything ...