Imagine writing code in the 70s, never expecting it would still be running 50+ years later on a spacecraft that's literally left the solar system. Those NASA engineers are celebrating because their documentation was so good they could decipher their own ancient hieroglyphics. Meanwhile, I can't understand code I wrote last week without comments. The ultimate legacy code maintenance success story—turns out commenting your code might actually be useful when your project is hurtling through interstellar space at 38,000 mph.
Documentation Is Important For Scientific Progress
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