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Mon, 29 April 2013 03:45

The Natural Philosoph
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On 29/04/13 03:42, Doug Miller wrote:
> Scott Johnson <noonehome(at)chalupasworld(dot)com> wrote in news:klk9mf$ce8$1@dont-
> email.me:
>
>> I understand what NP is saying though. I have revisited code I wrote
>> years ago. I know I must of been in 'the zone', because some of the
>> algorithms (some) where just short of brilliant and trying to figure out
>> what I was thinking without comments (kind of wipes out the brilliant
>> part I know), was like an outer body experience.
> And that is why I *always* comment code whose purpose is not immediately obvious: self-
> defense. Even with a large applications group, you still wind up maintaining a lot of your own
> code, maybe years later: "Hey, who wrote this module? Doug did? OK, Doug, you get to do
> this enhancement." Never mind the fact that Doug is now the sysadmin, and hasn't worked in
> apps development for five years... Naah, that'd never happen... Would it?
I think what happens with me anyway, is that after a while I have more
or less the whole structure and design in my head, and coding is just a
matter of writing the mental picture in the language. The temptations is
to do that but IF the actual concept is flawed or its got lost in
translation its vile to debug without the comments.

Often I will write the pseudo code as a comment and see if the code
actually corresponds..

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		Got a chuckle and wanted to share. By: Scott Johnson on Sat, 27 April 2013 20:51
		Re: Got a chuckle and wanted to share. By: The Natural Philosoph on Sat, 27 April 2013 21:06
		Re: Got a chuckle and wanted to share. By: Arno Welzel on Sun, 28 April 2013 20:36
		Re: Got a chuckle and wanted to share. By: Scott Johnson on Sun, 28 April 2013 23:03
		Re: Got a chuckle and wanted to share. By: Doug Miller on Mon, 29 April 2013 02:42
		Re: Got a chuckle and wanted to share. By: The Natural Philosoph on Mon, 29 April 2013 03:45
		Re: Got a chuckle and wanted to share. By: Tim Streater on Mon, 29 April 2013 08:29
		Re: Got a chuckle and wanted to share. By: Richard Yates on Mon, 29 April 2013 13:37

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