What's the golden code/comment ratio? [closed]
Is there a code/comment ratio that you consider to be a sign of good (bad) code health? Can you give examples of open source projects that are considered to be well coded and their respective comment ratio? (I realize that no ratio is "true" for every project and there may very well be crappy projects that exhibit this theoretical golden ratio. Still...) Comments should be very rare and valuable, almost always expressing the "why" and never the "how" (the exception being when the how is complex and not easily discernible from the code). Every comment is a hint that you may need to refactor to