From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 22 13:01:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 274C737B401 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:01:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01A1943FDF for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:01:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk) Received: from piii600.wadham.ox.ac.uk ([81.103.196.4]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.comESMTP <20030422200103.CAFW25105.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@piii600.wadham.ox.ac.uk>; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 21:01:03 +0100 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.1.20030422205617.0387b378@popserver.sfu.ca> X-Sender: cperciva@popserver.sfu.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 21:01:01 +0100 To: Terry Lambert , Colin Percival From: Colin Percival In-Reply-To: <3EA5948D.EDB810B2@mindspring.com> References: <5.0.2.1.1.20030422171035.01c5e258@popserver.sfu.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: Jonathon McKitrick cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Code layout and debugging time X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 20:01:07 -0000 At 12:14 22/04/2003 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: >I think that there would not be a similar effect, unless the >comments were sprinkled throughout the code like pixie dust. >8-). [snip] >If you ever find and Open Source that qualifies as "heavily >commented", let us know, and we can go take a look. Well, not Open Source, but I have seen quite a few undergraduate programming assignments which have "pixie dust" comments. Some people take their instructors' advice to "comment everything you write" a bit too seriously, I think. Colin Percival