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Comment by MyHonestOpinon

6 hours ago

> Real programmers don’t document their programs.

This is kind of a straw man. I suspect people say that tongue in cheek.

Good programmers try to make their code clear and easy to understand. They add comments to clarify, specially their whys.

The problem I have with documentation is that you end up with mountains of documents over time about a lot of things that are no longer true and many times contradictory. The only solution I have seen is making sure that documents have owners that update them periodically.