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Re: Writing, Coding, and Professionals

by Andrew Haley <andrew29@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mar 17, 2008 at 10:24 AM

Guy Macon <http://www.guymacon.com/>
wrote:

> I don't know who first used this analogy, but there is an old saying
> that a good programmer writes his/her comments in such a way that an
> imaginary future compiler with sufficienly advanced technology
> could, in theory, compile the comments and end up with a working
> program.

I don't know who said it either, but I very strongly disagree.  Good
commenting is not so redundant.

Andrew.




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Andrew Haley <andrew29  2008-03-15 10:03:17 
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Jerry Avins <jya@[EMAI  2008-03-15 11:12:47 
Re: Writing, Coding, and Professionals
 Guy Macon <http://www.  2008-03-15 18:02:03 
Re: Writing, Coding, and Professionals
 Andrew Haley <andrew29  2008-03-17 10:24:55 
Re: Writing, Coding, and Professionals
 Guy Macon <http://www.  2008-03-17 22:40:16 
Re: Writing, Coding, and Professionals
 anton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-03-18 11:13:09 
Re: Writing, Coding, and Professionals
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Re: Writing, Coding, and Professionals
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Re: Writing, Coding, and Professionals
 anton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-03-18 19:39:30 
Re: Writing, Coding, and Professionals
 "Paul E. Bennett&quo  2008-03-18 20:41:29 
Re: Writing, Coding, and Professionals
 Guy Macon <http://www.  2008-03-19 10:14:57 
Re: Writing, Coding, and Professionals
 anton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-03-19 13:40:38 
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 "Paul E. Bennett&quo  2008-03-13 19:02:46 
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 John Doty <jpd@[EMAIL   2008-03-12 17:18:24 

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