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Not many people talk about good practices to use for comments in code. Many people see them as an extra or freebie, so not a lot of thought gets put into them. The truth is, though, that comments are a great tool for giving insight into the thought process when the code was being written. Unfortunately like any tool, comments can be misused.
Here are three of the most common misuses of comments which I tend to run into.