A professor used to say, we don’t write code for the machine. The machine doesn’t need code. It would be just as happy whether we hand carve 1s and 0s on ferromagnetic disks or if we wrote a compiler for emojis. Binary is binary. We write code for the humans. So make it legible.

But at the same time you can over comment. If your variables are self described it’s not needed.

I never said anything about comments. My professor advocated that the code should tell yourself and other humans what it was making the machine do. Comments should document the design and the architecture. Not explain the code. A well designed and correct code needs few comments.

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