Re: Ada's Assembly Language Comments

[rodemann@mathematik.uni-ulm.de (Joerg Rodemann)]

RC (rc1@clanchy.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> Compilers do their best to preclude this, programmers have their own
> techniques of minimising their mistakes, making their intentions clear
> and testing that the program does what the specification (and the
> comments) say it should.

Really? Do they? What if your are not actually debugging the code but
trying to understand it for maintenance or porting purposes? Just recently
I was wondering how some piece of code could function. It contained some
really weird constructs. It was only them that I eventually recognized
the code was commented out. This is the major reason I only use these single
line comments now (using C++ and Java). They can save a lot of time i. e.
for someone not familiar with the code.

Surely this is just my humble opinion...

Joerg

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