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Re: Got a chuckle and wanted to share. [message #181275 is a reply to message #181274]

Mon, 29 April 2013 08:29

Tim Streater
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In article <klkqc4$c8g$1(at)news(dot)albasani(dot)net>,
The Natural Philosopher <tnp(at)invalid(dot)invalid> wrote:

> 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..

How about internal documentation? I've already written 30 pages of that
for my app.

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Tim

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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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