Re: Programming language vote - results

[kevin@kombat.acadiau.ca (Kevin Swan)]

firewind (firewind@metroid.dyn.ml.org) wrote:

: I very seldom comment my code at the first writing. I prefer to just code
: and get it done, then go back later and add comments, but -only- to
: code which is not easily understood.

Heh, I take a somewhat opposite route.  I comment before I code.  :)  Quite
often, the first iteration of my programs look like this:

FILE *fp;
int count = 0;
/* Open the file, test for errors. */
while (1) {
  /* Read a line, look for keyword. */
      /* If found a keyword, print the line, otherwise increment count. */
      /* If EOF hit, break out of loop. */
}
/* Close file, print results to stdout. */

I then go back and fill in the code.  I find this approach works quite well,
and is very close to the top-down paradigm.

Kev.

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