On 22/02/2008, at 7:39 AM, Landon Blake wrote:
Do you think there should be a different standard or policy for source code comments in code used in open source programs, in comparison to that used in proprietary programs?
Other people are answering your question about code standards, but I'll answer a different question.
I don't think that there should be standards or policy regarding code, as nobody is going to pay attention to it anyway. People have been trying to create standards like VRML that have crashed and burned because the specifications outstripped the implementations and the specifications became increasingly difficult to maintain and lost their relevance in a changing world.
I am repeatedly amazed at the number of people in here who keep trying to set up groups, create specifications, write documentation, write books, and do everything except actually work on GIS. Too many managers, not enough workers. Nobody wants to be the workers, so they set up committees, set up conferences, write articles, and never actually pull their finger out and set finger to keyboard (yeergh) for code.
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