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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: User Defined Storage Pool : did you ever experiment with it ?
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On 2011-02-13, AdaMagica <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com> wrote:
> On 10 Feb., 08:59, Jacob Sparre Andersen <spa...@nbi.dk> wrote:
>> Yannick Duch ne wrote:
>> > I just had a look at the source, but unfortunately it lacks any
>> > comments
>>
>> IMHO source code shouldn't contain/need comments. �Comments are not
>> checkable by the compiler, and thus (potentially) misleading.
>
> Ouch, that hurts :-(

I agree that code should be commented - provided that developers remember
that the code tells you _what_ the program does and the comments should
tell you _why_ it does it.

Simon.

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