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From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
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Subject: Re: Easily-Read C++?
Date: 5 Oct 1994 22:23:18 GMT
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In article <36v7p4$amf@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>Right, and comments also slow down you reading because they add unnecessary
>characters .. I certainly know far too many programmers who think that
>way ...

There are actually times when it can!  Consider the following fragment
of an assembler language program for the PDP-11 written by someone who
was told to write a comment on every line:

	ADD	#1,R0		;Add one to R0.

That actually *does* slow down reading!

One company, either DEC (I think) or CDC (less likely) actively
discouraged this sort of thing in their coding standard.