From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
Subject: Re: The Last Word on Comments (was Re: Hungarian notation)
Date: 1996/07/12
Date: 1996-07-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4s5mpj$2pp@solutions.solon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4s4gbf$5fm@news.ld.centuryinter.net
In article <4s4gbf$5fm@news.ld.centuryinter.net>,
<steidl@centuryinter.net> wrote:
>Come on. What "apparent authority of comments"? Even newbies know
>that comments do not affect program behavior.
I would contest this. I've seen empty programs handed in, because the
only way to get the compiler to accept the code was to put everything in
comments.
(Well, I haven't, but my coworker who used to teach has.)
I would agree that *most* newbies know that comments do not affet program
behavior.
>The long, drawn-out mental blocks punctuated by periods of
>conceptual slippage and turbulance one goes through in these types of
>situations will *never* be matched by a mere comment. And yes, even
>working code can induce this most interesting affect.
I think this is one of the reasons the IOCCC survives; it *is* an interesting
effect, and it can be enjoyable, if it's not affecting something you need to
have working.
I think the common fascination with code which looks very different from what
it does is the moral equivalent of punning; the same sorts of people seem to
like it.
(It also makes for great April Fools' jokes. You should see the responses I
got to a posted program containing
scanf, "3", "%d", i;
...)
-s
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[not found] <4adem2$b5s@mercury.IntNet.net>
[not found] ` <4ahka7$o9m@inrou.erno.de>
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Hungarian notation Roger Merritt
1996-05-14 0:00 ` Keith Whittingham
1996-05-14 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-05-14 0:00 ` Pete Becker
[not found] ` <4ndb2j$1p0q@uni.library.ucla.edu>
1996-05-16 0:00 ` Scott
1996-05-16 0:00 ` Giuliano Carlini
1996-05-18 0:00 ` Warren Young
1996-05-16 0:00 ` Steve Branam
1996-05-16 0:00 ` Mark Chu-Carroll
1996-05-16 0:00 ` Jay Martin
1996-05-17 0:00 ` Scott
1996-05-23 0:00 ` G.O.Visser
1996-05-16 0:00 ` Matt Kennel
1996-05-14 0:00 ` Dave Mikesell
1996-05-14 0:00 ` Dr S.J. Harris
1996-05-15 0:00 ` Gerolf Wendland
1996-05-16 0:00 ` mAg
1996-05-17 0:00 ` Arne W Flones
1996-05-21 0:00 ` Norman L. Reitzel
1996-05-21 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-05-22 0:00 ` Peter Moylan
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Steve Willer
1996-05-28 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-05-29 0:00 ` Kevin Cline
1996-05-24 0:00 ` Jeff Dege
1996-05-24 0:00 ` Kevin Cline
1996-05-25 0:00 ` Steve Willer
1996-05-25 0:00 ` Hungarian notation: the thread of choice for consummate boors The Right Reverend Colin James III
1996-05-27 0:00 ` Ken Nicolson
[not found] ` <HFsHoD96w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
1996-05-28 0:00 ` Jon Hornstein
1996-06-05 0:00 ` Hungarian notation Ralph Silverman
1996-06-06 0:00 ` James McKim
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-06-06 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-05-26 0:00 ` Warren Young
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Andy Ho-Fan Chan
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-24 0:00 ` Bob Rodgers
1996-05-24 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-28 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-05-28 0:00 ` Jeff Dege
1996-05-28 0:00 ` Janus
1996-05-29 0:00 ` Chris Kuan
1996-05-29 0:00 ` Bob Rodgers
1996-05-30 0:00 ` Chris Kuan
1996-05-29 0:00 ` Michael Furman
1996-05-31 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-05-31 0:00 ` Commenting (was Re: Hungarian notation) Alan Bowler
1996-05-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-03 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-01 0:00 ` Hungarian notation Steve Willer
1996-06-03 0:00 ` Warren Young
1996-06-01 0:00 ` Warren Young
1996-05-31 0:00 ` Will Rose
1996-06-05 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Michael Furman
1996-06-01 0:00 ` Heinz Hemken
1996-06-02 0:00 ` Jeff Dege
1996-06-02 0:00 ` Matt Kennel
1996-06-05 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-06-06 0:00 ` Jeff Dege
1996-05-27 0:00 ` Peter Moylan
1996-05-27 0:00 ` Jeff Dege
1996-05-27 0:00 ` The Amorphous Mass
1996-05-28 0:00 ` Jeff Dege
1996-05-28 0:00 ` The Amorphous Mass
1996-05-29 0:00 ` Comments was: " Bob Lang 3P21 x3172
1996-05-30 0:00 ` Kevin Cline
[not found] ` <4odgjh$6o@carrera.intergate.bc.ca>
1996-05-28 0:00 ` try to run this! - try_me.exe [3/4] Otmar Conradus
1996-05-28 0:00 ` Hungarian notation Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-05-31 0:00 ` The Last Word on Comments (was Re: Hungarian notation) Clark L. Coleman
1996-06-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Kevin D. Quitt
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-06-15 0:00 ` Train
1996-06-18 0:00 ` Sandy McPherson
1996-06-18 0:00 ` David Zink
1996-06-19 0:00 ` Michael Furman
1996-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-23 0:00 ` David Zink
1996-06-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-12 0:00 ` steidl
1996-07-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-12 0:00 ` Peter Seebach [this message]
1996-06-29 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-06-29 0:00 ` steidl
1996-06-20 0:00 ` The Last Word on Comments (was Re: Hun Ian Ward
1996-06-05 0:00 ` The Last Word on Comments (was Re: Hungarian notation) Peter Moylan
1996-06-05 0:00 ` Mike Fulton
1996-06-05 0:00 ` Steve Howard
1996-06-06 0:00 ` Jeff Dege
1996-06-05 0:00 ` Shane Badham
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Steve Sobol
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Re-designing CS (long) (Was: Re: The Last Word on Comments) Warren Young
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Re-designing CS (long) Warren Young
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Brian J. Quandt
1996-06-06 0:00 ` The Last Word on Comments (was Re: Hungarian notation) Bob Lang 3P21 x3172
1996-06-08 0:00 ` Bill Hay
1996-06-11 0:00 ` Derek Lee Beatty
1996-06-11 0:00 ` Darius Blasbans
1996-06-11 0:00 ` Kevin J. Weise
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Kevin D. Quitt
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Kevin Cline
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-17 0:00 ` James McKim
1996-06-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-11 0:00 ` Darius Blasbans
1996-06-11 0:00 ` Darius Blasbans
1996-06-11 0:00 ` Darius Blasbans
1996-06-11 0:00 ` Darius Blasbans
1996-06-06 0:00 ` Hungarian notation Ralph Silverman
1996-06-06 0:00 ` David Hopkins
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Hungarian notation (an aside) Bob Lang 3P21 x3172
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Hungarian notation Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Steve Willer
1996-06-10 0:00 ` Michael Furman
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Warren Young
1996-06-06 0:00 ` Sam Hunting
1996-06-11 0:00 ` I wish it was "The Last Word on Comments (was Re: Hungarian notation)" Blair MacIntyre
1996-06-03 0:00 ` Hungarian notation Norman H. Cohen
1996-05-21 0:00 ` Bob Rodgers
1996-05-22 0:00 ` Slander (was: Hungarian notation) Graham Perkins
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-05-24 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-05-22 0:00 ` Hungarian notation Michael Furman
1996-05-22 0:00 ` Matt Kennel
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Steve Willer
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Steve Willer
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Bob Rodgers
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Peter Moylan
1996-06-10 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-05-18 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-05-23 0:00 ` James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Paul J. Kossick
1996-05-25 0:00 ` Raoul De Kezel
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Please keep Hungarian notation thread OUT of comp.lang.modula3 Tim Mann
1996-06-05 0:00 ` Hungarian notation Ralph Silverman
1996-06-05 0:00 ` jthorpe
1996-06-06 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-06-07 0:00 ` The Amorphous Mass
1996-06-10 0:00 ` Michael Furman
1996-06-11 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-06-11 0:00 ` Will Rose
1996-06-11 0:00 ` Kevin Cline
1996-06-11 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-06-11 0:00 ` Chris Engebretson
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Bob Rodgers
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Matt Kennel
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Jeff Dege
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Giuliano Carlini
1996-06-22 0:00 ` Richard Green
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Chris Kuan
1996-06-05 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-05-16 0:00 ` Dave Toland
1996-05-21 0:00 ` mAg
1996-05-21 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1996-05-21 0:00 ` slary61
1996-05-21 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Steve Willer
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-24 0:00 ` Steve Willer
1996-05-24 0:00 ` slary61
1996-05-24 0:00 ` Ian Ward
1996-05-24 0:00 ` Dave Toland
1996-05-24 0:00 ` Jerry Kuch
1996-05-24 0:00 ` Jeff Dege
1996-05-24 0:00 ` Jos A. Horsmeier
1996-05-26 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-05-27 0:00 ` Warren Young
1996-06-03 0:00 ` Eva
1996-05-28 0:00 ` Paul D. DeRocco
1996-05-27 0:00 ` Norman L. Reitzel
1996-05-27 0:00 ` Matt Kennel
1996-05-28 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-05-28 0:00 ` Jay Martin
1996-05-29 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-06-01 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-05-29 0:00 ` AJ Musgrove
1996-06-05 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-06-06 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Train
1996-05-23 0:00 ` jeffos2
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Bob Rodgers
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Bob Kitzberger
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-28 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-05-21 0:00 ` Bob Lang 3P21 x3172
1996-05-24 0:00 ` Oleg Kagan
1996-06-05 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-05-14 0:00 ` The Right Reverend Colin James III
1996-05-15 0:00 ` Graham Perkins
1996-05-15 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-05-16 0:00 ` Pete Becker
1996-05-14 0:00 ` David Priest
1996-05-23 0:00 ` James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763
1996-05-28 0:00 ` Homonnai Misi
1996-05-28 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1996-05-20 0:00 ` James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763
1996-05-20 0:00 ` Tom Wheeley
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Steve Willer
1996-05-22 0:00 ` James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763
1996-05-23 0:00 ` James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
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