I hold an unpopular stance: code comments are as important as the code itself. OK, maybe that’s a little overstated, but I maintain that code comments are critical to code readability and maintainability. Before you see if I weigh more than a duck, please hear me out… When I was a college undergrad, I had the privilege of working on a project with a graduate professor and some grad students. The core of the project was creating a software package to perform type checking on a non-typed, function...