If the Comments Are Ugly, the Code Is Ugly

itwbennett writes "What do your comments say about your code? Do grammatical errors in comments point to even bigger errors in code? That's what Esther Schindler contends in a recent blog post. 'Programming, whether you're doing it as an open source enthusiast or because you're workin' for The Man, is an exercise in attention to detail,' says Schindler. 'Someone who writes software must be a nit-picker, or the code won't work.... Long-winded 'explanations' of the code in the application's comments (that is, the ones that read like excuses), indicate that the developer probably didn't understand what he was doing.'"pa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/16/1626218/If-the-Comments-Are-Ugly-the-Code-Is-Ugly?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/11/16/1626218"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/16/1626218/If-the-Comments-Are-Ugly-the-Code-Is-Ugly?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/GB5WHbSZqHihUtrgHaAmbFZTIL4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/GB5WHbSZqHihUtrgHaAmbFZTIL4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/GB5WHbSZqHihUtrgHaAmbFZTIL4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/GB5WHbSZqHihUtrgHaAmbFZTIL4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/L2pz6Hadrcw" height="1" width="1"/

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