Driveby Blogging

• 2009-10-23

  Code documentation has an aging component to it, and artifacts like design documents are rarely representative of the code. Comments are ‘younger’ in some sense, but we’ve all seen tons of comments that make no sense. So read the comments and such, but think of them as archeological hints at best. They tell you what the code might have been trying to do, sometime in the past.

  — How to Read Other People’s Code