"The right side version has extracted functions from an arguably worrisome implementation on the left" Not amount of linearity and abstractions, or silly comme

"The right side version has extracted functions from an arguably worrisome implementation on the left" Not amount of linearity and abstractions, or silly comments, can make bad code readable. I see this stuff at work all the time. To my team's defense I deal with a lot of chemists and physicists who like to write their own algorithms.