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What's more important - easily understandable code or good comments?   [Edit]

Survey period: 1 Sep 2003 to 7 Sep 2003

You would hope to get both, but given a choice, which would you take?

OptionVotes% 
Easily understandable code69066.60
Good comments34633.40



 
GeneralRe: Dan Saks, Sec'ty of the ANSI/ICO C++ committee, on comments Pin
leppie2-Sep-03 7:16
leppie2-Sep-03 7:16 
GeneralRe: Dan Saks, Sec'ty of the ANSI/ICO C++ committee, on comments Pin
Navin2-Sep-03 9:06
Navin2-Sep-03 9:06 
GeneralRe: Dan Saks, Sec'ty of the ANSI/ICO C++ committee, on comments Pin
Navin2-Sep-03 9:05
Navin2-Sep-03 9:05 
GeneralRe: Dan Saks, Sec'ty of the ANSI/ICO C++ committee, on comments Pin
Gary Wheeler2-Sep-03 9:17
Gary Wheeler2-Sep-03 9:17 
GeneralDocumentation is like sex... Pin
Steven J. Ackerman2-Sep-03 5:14
Steven J. Ackerman2-Sep-03 5:14 
GeneralRe: Documentation is like sex... Pin
Gary Wheeler2-Sep-03 6:27
Gary Wheeler2-Sep-03 6:27 
GeneralDepends on the code you're writing. Pin
Navin2-Sep-03 4:55
Navin2-Sep-03 4:55 
GeneralBad Language Pin
Gavin Greig2-Sep-03 3:42
Gavin Greig2-Sep-03 3:42 
I'm a big fan of comments and was going to vote for them, but I spoke to another developer here and changed my vote to prefer understandable code.

His point? The best commenting in the world is no use if it's not in a language you understand.

(In his previous job with a games company, as an English speaker, he had to work with code commented in Japanese.)

Gavin Greig

"Haw, you're no deid," girned Charon. "Get aff ma boat or ah'll report ye."
Matthew Fitt - The Hoose O Haivers: The Twelve Trauchles O Heracles.

GeneralRe: Bad Language Pin
Navin2-Sep-03 5:35
Navin2-Sep-03 5:35 
GeneralRe: Bad Language Pin
ColinDavies2-Sep-03 22:42
ColinDavies2-Sep-03 22:42 
GeneralRe: Bad Language Pin
Gavin Greig2-Sep-03 23:07
Gavin Greig2-Sep-03 23:07 
GeneralThis code sure is legible eh? Pin
Nish Nishant1-Sep-03 19:06
sitebuilderNish Nishant1-Sep-03 19:06 
GeneralRe: This code sure is legible eh? Pin
Matt Newman2-Sep-03 2:34
Matt Newman2-Sep-03 2:34 
GeneralRe: This code sure is legible eh? Pin
Navin2-Sep-03 5:36
Navin2-Sep-03 5:36 
GeneralRe: This code sure is legible eh? Pin
Taka Muraoka2-Sep-03 7:33
Taka Muraoka2-Sep-03 7:33 
GeneralRe: This code sure is legible eh? Pin
Gary Wheeler2-Sep-03 5:52
Gary Wheeler2-Sep-03 5:52 
GeneralBoth are important... Pin
J. Dunlap1-Sep-03 18:21
J. Dunlap1-Sep-03 18:21 
GeneralRe: Both are important... Pin
Matt Newman2-Sep-03 2:35
Matt Newman2-Sep-03 2:35 
GeneralSame thing Pin
Jim A. Johnson1-Sep-03 16:25
Jim A. Johnson1-Sep-03 16:25 
GeneralRe: Same thing Pin
Chris Maunder1-Sep-03 16:54
cofounderChris Maunder1-Sep-03 16:54 
GeneralRe: Same thing Pin
berndg1-Sep-03 20:16
berndg1-Sep-03 20:16 
GeneralRe: Same thing Pin
Chris Beckett2-Sep-03 3:57
Chris Beckett2-Sep-03 3:57 
GeneralRe: Same thing Pin
leppie2-Sep-03 7:46
leppie2-Sep-03 7:46 
GeneralRe: Same thing Pin
John M. Drescher2-Sep-03 16:05
John M. Drescher2-Sep-03 16:05 
GeneralRe: Same thing Pin
Wade Tingley2-Sep-03 16:40
Wade Tingley2-Sep-03 16:40 

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