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: fac41,af40e09e753872c X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,f292779560fb8442 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f8c65,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c65,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: 1008e3,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1008e3,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: garyl@enter.net (Train) Subject: Re: The Last Word on Comments (was Re: Hungarian notation) Date: 1996/06/15 Message-ID: <4pun8d$m2n@news.enter.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 160339426 references: <4o07o9$rfu@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au> <4o1vo3$p2a@news1.ni.net> <4oegks$ntn@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> <31bf6e29.185297643@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> organization: ENTER.NET 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 Date: 1996-06-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , rriehle@nunic.nu.edu says... >> the program is doing and why; the comments are high-level. The code > shows how, with comments to explain unusual techniques. And the code exactly defines what's going on. In Poughkeepsie once, a fellow programmer (who I believe is a genius), handed me a snip of code written in hex (on the back of a 5081 card, no less) and said _What do you think of that?_ I asked him what it did and he replied _Read it!_ It was for the S/360 operating system we were developing at the time (1964). Actually, I'm glad he didn't comment it -- it would probably have been in hexadecimal. Gary