Quote Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker View Post
This thread has gotten a bit long in the tooth, as have I, so I have forgotten who the non-commentors are? FD said he was pretty minimalist, but TG, DataMiser, JMC, and myself all said we comment fairly heavily. EG doesn't appear to have explicitly endorsed either camp, though he appears to be leaning towards minimal comments with some of his commentary on TG's comments. Who else falls into the minimal camp?
I would not say I comment my code heavily, only where it is needed and/or when I am coding something as an example for someone else. Most of my code is written in such a way that you should not need a comment to understand what it does and why it would do it that way.