Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 21:01:01 +0100 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Code layout and debugging time Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.1.20030422205617.0387b378@popserver.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <3EA5948D.EDB810B2@mindspring.com> References: <5.0.2.1.1.20030422171035.01c5e258@popserver.sfu.ca>
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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
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