RE: powerful editors versus IDEs (was: License to Steal)

["Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." <rleif@rleif.com>]

From: Bob Leif
To: Anders Wirzenius et al.
The Annotations in XML, which are conceptually roughly equivalent to a class
of comment types, would be appropriate.

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Subject: Re: powerful editors versus IDEs (was: License to Steal)



Marin David Condic wrote in message <9drct2$gpq$1@nh.pace.co.uk>...
>In a perfect world, Configuration Management and Change Control would be
>integrated in such a way that the change history for a given module is not
>maintained as comments in the module, but as an attachment of some form
that
>you can retrieve as needed.

Agree. The form of the attachement is also then an established standardised
form (XML?) which may be read forwards and backwards by a CM tool to achieve
the historical moment of the code you want to dig out.
To put history lines as comment lines within the code is a poor mans
standardised solution.

Anders Wirzenius