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From: ell@access.digex.net (Ell)
Subject: Re: Is there a language that Dijkstra liked? (was: Re: Software
 landmines (loops))
Date: 1998/10/23
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"midlamD" <MidlamD@abacustech.com> wrote:

>I think I can safely say (as a 62-year old) that being anti-documentation
>has nothing to do with age.  Most of the programming peers that I most
>respected were serious inline documenters (I respected them for their
>solutions, not their comments <g>.)  
>I don't know what your perfesser's problem is, but it sounds to me like he
>just doesn't want to deal with a lot of paper -- he knows what the "right"
>code is and he doesn't want to have to look hard to find it.

Though I consider a major aspect of good commenting to be keeping
comments as "out of the way" as possible.

Elliott
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