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I think because most people find written english easier to produce than clean code.

Comments have certainly aided me enormously in navigating very large, sometimes crufty, codebases.

I don't mean this negatively, but in my experience as a high schooler and in college, the programming crowd tended to be lacking in written (communication) skills. This is certainly a huge blanket statement, but for younger programmers today I think the stereotype has at least some truth.

There are some people whose code I'd be terrified to maintain, if their code/comments are anything like their text messages.

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