On 19 Nov 2001, at 17:53, Ivan Prenosil wrote:

> /* */
> --
>
> Two kinds of comments !
> I thought real programmers do not use comments at all !
>

Real programmers load a hex editor and type machine codes
directly into an executable file. ;-)

Unfortunately a lot of programmers don't use a lot of comments, so
six months after writing something, when the client decides at
2:47am on a Sunday morning it must be fixed immediately, the
programmer looks at their code, and they start talking to
themselves, something like this:

Who is the %$#%# who wrote this @#$!, oh %$^#@, I wrote it,
well what the %$^@ was I thinking about when I wrote this @#$!%
%^@!$#. So many many non-billable hours, are wasted, when a
few billable hours could have been spent commenting.

Paul












Paul Schmidt
Tricat Technologies
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