Comments Are Inevitable

By Tom Moertel Posted on August 14, 2026 Tags: code , comments , beyond clean code , clean code , good code , nature of code , purpose of code , source code , definitions , theory , philosophy , engineering culture ( This post is part of a series of posts on good code . ) One of the arguments floated in the book Clean Code is that “if our programming languages were expressive enough, or if we had…