The J Incunabulum refers to some C code in this "essay":
http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum
I find it rather inscrutable, though I wonder if the author, Arthur Whitney, finds it self-explanatory [1]:
BC By raising the level of abstraction, you make it easier for things to be correct by inspection.
AW Yes. I have about 1,000 customers around the world in different banks and hedge funds on the equity side (where everything's going fine). I think the ratio of comment to code for them is actually much greater than one. I never comment anything because I'm always trying to make it so the code itself is the comment.