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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,f292779560fb8442 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: f8c65,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c65,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1008e3,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1008e3,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,af40e09e753872c X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public From: "Kevin J. Weise" Subject: Re: The Last Word on Comments (was Re: Hungarian notation) Date: 1996/06/11 Message-ID: <4pkkr6$t31@michp1.redstone.army.mil>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 159703747 references: <4o07o9$rfu@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au> <4o1vo3$p2a@news1.ni.net> <4oegks$ntn@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> <31BDA39F.14E4@phidani.be> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Redstone Arsenal, Alabama mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.modula2,comp.edu,comp.lang.eiffel x-mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) Date: 1996-06-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Darius Blasbans wrote (with deletions): >Clark L. Coleman wrote: >> >> I have 15 years industrial software engineering experience on a variety >> of projects in a variety of software engineering environments at 4 >> companies. The people who claim to be from industry and have posted >> on this subject have been really disappointing. I shudder to think that >> someone is paying them to develop code if they really think you add >> comments after the code is written. > If you think this practice is bad, wait until you hear/read this: I worked for a company several years ago where part of the development environment was a PDL generator. You got it! They developed the code first, then ran it through a program to produce the PDL to put in the design document!! And they believed it was a perfectly reasonable way to do things!! I can understand desiring to reduce the documentation effort, but to go from B-specs to code using an undocumented process that back-filled the design? I can't wait to see responses to this one. (BTW, they produced real-time systems, too, that were remarkably rate-monotonic before I ever heard that term.) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin J. Weise kweise@c3i-ccmail.sed.redstone.army.mil COLSA Corporation voice: (205) 842-9680 Huntsville, AL