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"Back in the days of assembly language programming, the distance between what you intended as a programmer and how the computer forced you to express that intention was enormous. Every few lines you needed a little story to help you understand what the next few instructions really meant.
As programming languages progressed, moving the expression closer to what it really meant, the habit of commenting every few lines relaxed ...
... Someone asked me 'What percentage of your methods have comments?' I answered 'between 0 and 1 percent'..."
-- Kent Beck, Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns
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