He suggests that inline comments are unnecessary when method/function/procedure names are specific and they have one specific purpose.
Ford may be onto something here but he obsesses over the latest and supposedly greatest software methdologies. Some of the obsessions are dynamic languages, "agile" methodology, and "test/behaviour-driven" development. What I found worse was the re-labeling and mis-crediting of an old software development idea. Ford credits Kent Beck and calls it the "compose method" pattern but everyone else (at least those who know their history) will recognize it as a central idea in structured programming. This apparent pattern, really an old idea given a new name, describes the writing of smaller functions/methods with a clear, specific purpose. The beauty of structured programming is that it gives us a way to convert blocks of code into smaller functions.
