I'm willing to bet the file name in the comment never had a purpose. It's
usually only for companies that do real paper code reviews.
-- Henry
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote:
> Most files start with:
>
> /*
> * File:
> * Summary:
> * Written by:
> */
>
> What's the point of these? Especially the first and the last.
>
> What file it is -- uhm, look at your editor's status line.
>
> Who made the first edit to the file -- git will tell you that including the
> authorship of every single line back to the start of DCSS. For anything
> earlier, this data is ridiculously inaccurate anyway; the code has been
> tossed between files so many times it doesn't make sense to attribute whole
> files to people.
>
> Do you guys think it's ok to axe these lines?
>
> --
> 1KB // Microsoft corollary to Hanlon's razor:
> // Never attribute to stupidity what can be
> // adequately explained by malice.
>
>
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