Argh, key typo: "...they're NOW out of business..."! On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 12:10 AM, P S <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Eric Bielefeld <[email protected]> wrote: >> I hope that when people say "Real Programmers don't comment code" that they >> are being humorous, or just kidding around. Assemble code for someone like >> myself who has done a lot of coding, but done it a long time ago, is hard to >> read. Good comments make it at least possible to follow what the author was >> doing. I think if I were the boss, and someone wrote a lot of assmbler code >> without comments, they would either change their ways, or find a different >> job. > > I worked for a development company where, at an engineering meeting, > the VP of Engineering said that folks shouldn't comment their code, > because the comments might not be correct. I waited for him to laugh. > He didn't. > > Later, I asked one of the others about it; he assured me that the VP > was serious. > > I ignored him. > > They're not out of business... > > (I know, it must have been MY fault!) >
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