Adam Beneschan expounded in news:c86a76ae-5b25-4c13-a026-5439a57803f6
@k25g2000prh.googlegroups.com:

> On May 27, 10:10�am, Warren <ve3...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Not so (snickers) - Perl is read once, rewritten many times.
>>
>> Even the perl code's author can't remember how it worked,
>> 3 months later ;-)
> 
> That's why Perl, and many other computer languages, provide features
> called "comments".  But I suspect our friend Rex would think that the
> purpose of comments is just busywork to prove to some evil IT
> supervisor that his employees aren't lazy.  :)
> 
>                                    -- Adam

I once had the, ahem, pleasure of fixing a summer student's
program after he left to resume his education. He obviously
did not understand what comments where for. They were mostly
like this one:

-- The next statement adds 1 to the current value of I

I = I + 1

Yikesy! The comments not only didn't help but
they got in the way of reading the code (not
to mention that variables were also poorly named).

Warren