[racket-dev] Fwd: [racket] Why experienced programmers don’t use comments?

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 8 23:46:21 EDT 2013

What is our answer? 


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> From: Ben Duan <yfefyf at gmail.com>
> Subject: [racket] Why experienced programmers don’t use comments?
> Date: July 8, 2013 9:41:10 PM EDT
> To: users at racket-lang.org
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I have a question here. There’s an extensive use of comments in HtDP. But there are few comments in experienced programmers’ code, for example in racket’s source code. Why is that?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
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