> The statement I made is controversial because it contradicts a long-standing 
> programming dogma. However, if you think about it, it makes perfect sense: 
> poorly written code requires a lot of explaining. Well written code requires 
> little or none.

But as others mentioned, code with comments is more likely to be written 
by someone who has put at least some effort into the work, which has 
some correlation with writing good code.

Note that the correlation breaks down the moment you start measuring it 
and acting on the measurements. This is something that is often 
overlooked by the quality guys.

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