What incenses me is this recent notion that because programmers fail to change comment with the code change, they shouldn't even write comments. They should instead write the self-documenting code.
This doesn't make sense on so many levels. Only a recluse sitting in some dungeon who never dealt with people can come up with something so inane.
Edit:
I understand that that every developer should aspire to become someone who writes code that reads like a children's book, and they should. However, actively discouraging writing comments is so wrong on so many levels.
At the last place I worked, we used to have a small at-home coding test before interview and none of the young developers who successfully completed the test did any sort of code documentation or commenting. When I asked why, they would tell me that their code is self-documenting, which was utter nonsense.
This doesn't make sense on so many levels. Only a recluse sitting in some dungeon who never dealt with people can come up with something so inane.
Edit:
I understand that that every developer should aspire to become someone who writes code that reads like a children's book, and they should. However, actively discouraging writing comments is so wrong on so many levels.
At the last place I worked, we used to have a small at-home coding test before interview and none of the young developers who successfully completed the test did any sort of code documentation or commenting. When I asked why, they would tell me that their code is self-documenting, which was utter nonsense.