On 4/18/2012 8:26 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > Case in point. Ever had code you wrote a couple of months ago, you > went back and looked at and now you have no clue anymore how or why it > works? No, actually. I comment anything larger than a few dozen lines, I don't work in Perl really (zing!), and I have a good long-term memory (which is aided by the fact that I don't write a ton of code every day). I still have C/C++ code from when I was 16 that I recall exactly how it works (most of that is a MUD, just so we don't think I'm making a big boast here).
I imagine if I was a real programmer, I'd have more of that issue, though. I do sometimes misplace files, or have entire directories that I archive and then forget exist, and find a few years later and wonder what they were there for. I imagine this is a similar mechanic. -Tod Hansmann /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
