Lutger wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
So I thought I'd ask a candid question in here. How do you feel about
moderate use of the first person in a technical book? Do you find it
comfortable, neutral, or cringeworthy?
Andrei
Comfortable, as long as you're not writing a Head First book. Avoiding first
person too much sometimes leads to awkward and dull texts. The programming
library has enough of these.
Yeah I also got into the habit of writing neutral comments in my code, I
used to use the first person a lot and a joke here and there, sometimes
cursing at microsoft for backward api designs.
At what point do we lose it and become serious in code comments?
