Ron Burk wrote:
> And, what is going on in the heads of programmers who > enjoy commenting that is different than in the heads of > programmers who do not? My conjecture is that the main difference here is the programmer's facility with abstraction. It goes like this: A more concrete programmer thinks what's real is the code -- the code is all there is. A more abstract programmer thinks what's real is the abstraction (which he might capture in a comment, for himself and other like-minded programmers), and views the code as an almost arbitrary implementation of the abstraction. Regarding the pointless comments adduced by P. Chase: My theory would say those are written by programmers who are more concrete but have been indoctrinated to write comments anyway. Mark Abbott Computer Science Dept. CSU Chico - Automatic footer for [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe discuss To join the announcements list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe announce To receive a help file, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] help This list is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/ If you have any problems or questions, please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
