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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

An autistic coder would have documented this feature to the point of pedantry.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And who updates that documentation three months later when a bug gets fixed or a new requirement get implemented?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The person who changed the code, it's just ordinary maintenance. The comments may not execute, but I submit they are as much a part of the program as the executable code. Maybe over time those comments are condensed, or even removed; no different than any other refactoring or cleanup.