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user-inactivated  ·  4277 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Yes, your code does need comments.

    many projects are under time constraints or aren't meant to last.

Any yet they do. There is an awk abomination I wrote for converting IRIS GL programs to OpenGL 1.mumble in the mid-2000s to aid friend in the chemistry department in migrating some software off of Irix on EOL'd SGI boxen. It was supposed to be a one-off. It is still in use, because they didn't want to bother learning a new API. They just added make targets to run the conversion. I don't know, but strongly suspect, that there are poor abused graduate students who would have appreciated a few comments in there.