Why do people not add comments when coding nowadays?

[Gwei]

If you are going to release a work, be it the most simplest npc, to the most complicated xxX stuff, thse comments really helps the second editor, how well the second or third editor can continue editing the code depends on this too. Don't you agreed?

why won't people add any useful comments anymore, just had a look at all these new random repack/src, they are all codes and letters and numbers, and barely any comment anymore and it seems like the original comments left by odinms is getting more and more lesser..
even if there are comments, theres no meaning in it, and the comments goes like //fuck this line or //water of life? or //lol i like long names

that doesn't help editors at all..
or i guess they were not told the real uses of comments =|

does any of you agree? or people are really that selfish cause they want to be the one editing all the time and gets all the credit and thank D:

[MentaL]

[Generic230]

Good code for the most part won't need comments if it's something small

[Gwei]

Good code for the most part won't need comments if it's something small

You know in my school, when we submit our programs for our lecturers to mark, 1/3 of the programs must consist of comments, else its immediate failure and at every close '}' there must be a comment citing the examiner what the } is closing. failing to cite a comment behind the '}' minus 5 marks out of 100 for every practices(problem solving) and test.
like
}//end main
}//end function z
}//end if

So you kinda gets 0 if your program happens to have over 50 } and you dont cite a comment at the end of each }.

I believe the comment thingy is not related to skill/coding quality at all, its there to allow users including authors to understand and go through back big past works faster. I'm sure an experienced/pro programmer(not 1 that just noe about programming from maple) but one who really learned programming from the basics will agrees with me the usefulness of comments..

[FateJiki]

You know in my school, when we submit our programs for our lecturers to mark, 1/3 of the programs must consist of comments, else its immediate failure and at every close '}' there must be a comment citing the examiner what the } is closing. failing to cite a comment behind the '}' minus 5 marks out of 100 for every practices(problem solving) and test.
like
}//end main
}//end function z
}//end if

So you kinda gets 0 if your program happens to have over 50 } and you dont cite a comment at the end of each }.

I believe the comment thingy is not related to skill/coding quality at all, its there to allow users including authors to understand and go through back big past works faster. I'm sure an experienced/pro programmer(not 1 that just noe about programming from maple) but one who really learned programming from the basics will agrees with me the usefulness of comments..

I agree that it can be useful. However, I don't see why we should put a comment after every bracket.


Ex. :

                } else if (selection == 1) {
                    cm.warp(100000200);
                    cm.dispose();
                } 

I don't think you need comments to figure this out.


But nevertheless, I like the idea, and why not put comments where needed.(If it gets complicated , why not?)

[Generic230]

You know in my school, when we submit our programs for our lecturers to mark, 1/3 of the programs must consist of comments, else its immediate failure and at every close '}' there must be a comment citing the examiner what the } is closing. failing to cite a comment behind the '}' minus 5 marks out of 100 for every practices(problem solving) and test.
like
}//end main
}//end function z
}//end if

So you kinda gets 0 if your program happens to have over 50 } and you dont cite a comment at the end of each }.

I believe the comment thingy is not related to skill/coding quality at all, its there to allow users including authors to understand and go through back big past works faster. I'm sure an experienced/pro programmer(not 1 that just noe about programming from maple) but one who really learned programming from the basics will agrees with me the usefulness of comments..

I've read a bunch of articles about commenting, a bunch saying its useless if your code is good, a bunch saying to comment everything, then ones saying how people over-comment just like commenting a closing bracket, you obviously just aren't able to space.

[josho192837]

Takes too much time. Read over the code a couple times and if you're able to edit it, I think you'll be able to understand it.

[Xerixe]

Yea, lets comment stuff like

if (splitted[0].equals("@gofm")) {
     c.getPlayer().changeMap(910000000);
}

Because people so can't understand that right?

So you kinda gets 0 if your program happens to have over 50 } and you dont cite a comment at the end of each }.

Orly now? So even if its the final exam, if you dont put } //end
You'll get 0 and fail and you would need to retake the test for not adding comments?

, 1/3 of the programs must consist of comments,

Wow, shit, since most sources has like 2mb in size,
you're gonna write 600++ kb worth of text? :O

[SaintsIan]

Because if you have named your classes, functions, interfaces, methods, and all those stuff well... they are comments in itself.

[Sparrow]

Why would I write a message to myself?

[xJvlaplex]

You know in my school, when we submit our programs for our lecturers to mark, 1/3 of the programs must consist of comments, else its immediate failure and at every close '}' there must be a comment citing the examiner what the } is closing. failing to cite a comment behind the '}' minus 5 marks out of 100 for every practices(problem solving) and test.
like
}//end main
}//end function z
}//end if

So you kinda gets 0 if your program happens to have over 50 } and you dont cite a comment at the end of each }.

I believe the comment thingy is not related to skill/coding quality at all, its there to allow users including authors to understand and go through back big past works faster. I'm sure an experienced/pro programmer(not 1 that just noe about programming from maple) but one who really learned programming from the basics will agrees with me the usefulness of comments..

this is very bad programming practice, just imagine a project like ReactOS decorated with comments like that - it will probably be up to 1.5GB compressed instead of 500MB! moreover, it may help people who don't know shit about the language to "understand" it, but programmers should understand the code anyway, with tools these days like Notepad++, it's easy to match the bracket pairs.

[flav]

I agree with David and Ian, if you have a good programming style you don't need a comment for every 2 lines.

Why would I write a message to myself?

Don't make yourself look stupid, it's obvious that he's talking about releaes.

[Kaynu]

You only comment to help a programmer understand the code, not the language.

[xJvlaplex]

moreover, if you're going to add a End If comment on the end of each brace, you may as well use Visual Basic, seems like C/C++ is too complicated for you,

[Carrino]

We've done our job by releasing it and now, are you asking us to waste our time to add comments?

[Generic230]

We've done our job by releasing it and now, are you asking us to waste our time to add comments?

Implying you ever release something half-decent.