While I know this work was satire, in some cases, it is advised to leave out comments in code.  While some comments are necessary, they should exist merely to state what the code does not.  The best written code often explains itself through easy to read layout, variable naming, and intelligent function and class development procedures.  If the code already says what it is doing, there is no reason to repeat it in a comment.  A good programmer is always trying to write code like this.<p>As for having a set of rules to become a superstar developer... you would need to actually be a superstar developer to make the rules.  If they are extremely rare, we should rarely have any rules because there would be few people posting such rules.  Therefore, I am skeptical of any such lists unless they are from someone I recognize as extremely gifted prior to the writing of the rules.