From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 11440e,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid11440e,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-14 14:43:19 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.bc.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml Subject: Re: Commenting code Organization: Canadian Mind Products Reply-To: roedy@mindprod.com Message-ID: <0rbiito3r5sf40n19n3dklasqrf40r6u0h@4ax.com> References: <3B1E1452.BAFAAB7F@baesystems.com> <3B1E4B93.7FB8A94D@lmtas.lmco.com> <3B1F3704.C7E0D03A@brighton.ac.uk> <3b20d633$8$fuzhry$mr2ice@va.news.verio.net> <3B20EDAC.5A4F7BD4@home.com> <3b27569c$1$fuzhry$mr2ice@va.news.verio.net> <3B27AD17.DF50BDED@home.com> <3b28b178$7$fuzhry$mr2ice@va.news.verio.net> <3B28E4BA.551784C1@home.com> <9gb2ti$p2q$1@news.jump.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 21:43:18 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.76.128.193 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.bc.home.com 992554998 24.76.128.193 (Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:43:18 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:43:18 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ruby:10594 comp.lang.ada:8753 comp.lang.awk:3065 comp.lang.clarion:21965 comp.lang.java.programmer:76457 comp.lang.pl1:1041 comp.lang.vrml:3811 Date: 2001-06-14T21:43:18+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:20:50 -0500, "Conrad Schneiker" wrote or quoted : >IMHO, this has strayed pretty far off topic insofar as Ruby is concerned I don't know what Ruby even is, but if it is some sort of computer language, why would it be unique in all computer languages? All other languages seem to require very much the same sort of commenting etiquette. For more detail, please look up the key words mentioned in this post in the Java Glossary at: http://mindprod.com/gloss.html -- Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products Custom computer programming since 1963. Ready to take on new work.