Timeline for Are outdated comments an urban myth?
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
26 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 2022 at 14:17 | answer | added | gnasher729 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 19, 2012 at 16:40 | comment | added | mouviciel | recent outdated comments : the more recent, the less outdated. | |
| Nov 19, 2012 at 15:42 | comment | added | k3b | +1: good question: I will add "check if comments of changed code are up to date" to our codereviews and "Definition of Done" | |
| Nov 19, 2012 at 15:26 | comment | added | user16764 | "Do you have specific examples of recent outdated comments you've seen?" Yes. I've had one pointed out during code a review session. | |
| Nov 19, 2012 at 13:56 | comment | added | Steven Jeuris | I just added a study to my answer which you might find interesting. One of their observations is very much in line with yours. | |
| Aug 14, 2012 at 4:58 | comment | added | Karl Bielefeldt | Just my luck, I've seen quite a few in the year since I posted this. I guess I had subconsciously learned to not trust them, then to correct them and move on, without giving it enough thought to put into my long-term memory. | |
| Apr 20, 2011 at 12:58 | vote | accept | Karl Bielefeldt | ||
| Apr 20, 2011 at 10:05 | comment | added | SK-logic | I've been mostly working with a very old legacy code throughout my whole career. There've been about a dozen of times when I had some severe problems related to outdated comments in a weird 30 years old Fortan77 code, but it was a close to zero percentage of the code where comments were adequate. So I agree, the scale of a problem must have been exaggerated. | |
| Apr 20, 2011 at 6:51 | answer | added | jwenting | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 20, 2011 at 3:15 | history | edited | Adam Lear♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 | edited title |
| Apr 20, 2011 at 2:40 | answer | added | Gaurav Sehgal | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 20, 2011 at 0:09 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackProgrammer/status/60495320257282048 | ||
| Apr 19, 2011 at 23:23 | answer | added | Bobby Tables | timeline score: 19 | |
| Apr 19, 2011 at 18:17 | answer | added | Dyppl | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 19, 2011 at 18:10 | comment | added | MaR | I've seen a lot of outdated comments, some were just plain misleading EVIL. Definitely no myth, but is mostly valid for projects that are maintained by many people and/or for a long time, amplified by complexity. However I learned to trust the code, not the comments (I almost never read them if they exceed more than one two lines). | |
| Apr 19, 2011 at 16:23 | answer | added | Bill Leeper | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 19, 2011 at 16:02 | answer | added | Steve Jackson | timeline score: 41 | |
| Apr 19, 2011 at 14:02 | answer | added | Deckard | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 19, 2011 at 14:01 | answer | added | user3792 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 19, 2011 at 14:00 | answer | added | Kim.Net | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 19, 2011 at 13:59 | answer | added | JeffO | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 19, 2011 at 13:59 | comment | added | P.Brian.Mackey | I see more lack of comments whatsoever than anything. Combined with poor naming conventions its a ball of fun trying to read some of the stuff I work with. | |
| Apr 19, 2011 at 13:58 | answer | added | Steven Jeuris | timeline score: 20 | |
| Apr 19, 2011 at 13:58 | answer | added | Dave Wise | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 19, 2011 at 13:53 | comment | added | pyvi | Agreed. Outdated code made into a comment, now that's something I see a lot - and would like to see less of. | |
| Apr 19, 2011 at 13:47 | history | asked | Karl Bielefeldt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |