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It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code @ Things Of Interest (qntm.org)
submitted 3 months ago by JackbyDev@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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Seeing that Uncle Bob is making a new version of Clean Code I decided to try and find this article about the original.

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[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 3 months ago

And yet, outdated comments are far, far more common than outdated function names.

Because people don't try to squeeze a complete description of what a function does into a single identifier, which is what you you would have to do if you want function names to take the place of comments. I for one don't want to strip all the spaces and punctuation out of my comments so I can use them as function names, and I really didn't want to read someone else's code written in that style.