Nah. No code actually documents itself. Ever. Anyone who says they can is an idiot that doesn’t understand the purpose of comments and docs.
Code can never describe intent, context, or consequences unless you read every line of code in every library and framework used, and every external call. Especially if they aren’t doing “fail fast” correctly.
A skilled programmer can make self documenting code, so I always document mine.
The developers after you changed the code radically but left your documentation in place.
Nah. No code actually documents itself. Ever. Anyone who says they can is an idiot that doesn’t understand the purpose of comments and docs.
Code can never describe intent, context, or consequences unless you read every line of code in every library and framework used, and every external call. Especially if they aren’t doing “fail fast” correctly.