>But there seems to be a lot of variation between individual programmers >which determines their feelings regarding comments.
And we haven't even exposed the true amount of variation there is. People who think source code is the one true source of communication about a program have nothing on people like the inimitable Geoff Chappell (author of "DOS Internals"). He believes that source code too often obscures what is really going on, and that the one true source of communication about a program is the actual machine code. He backs this up with innumerable bugs he's found by examining machine code that the source code programmers apparently missed, either because their compiler had a bug, or they did not understand the implications of what they were telling the compiler, and so on. Like the "only the source code matters" folks, he can make an argument for his position, and point to examples to back it up. For all I know, if his ideas were exposed to a broader forum he might convert many to his way of thinking and programmers asked to understand a program would routinely refuse to look at not only documentation and comments, but source code as well! - 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]
