On 2025-12-18 15:40, Peter Flass wrote:
On 12/17/25 20:10, c186282 wrote:
On 12/17/25 14:17, rbowman wrote:
On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:11:09 -0500, c186282 wrote:
Probably 50% of the text in my code - doesn't matter which
lang - is 'comments'.
I looked at some of my code and it's pretty much comment free.
There are a couple of .c files with comments that I reused from
another project that have somebody's comments.
I had a tendency to clone similar projects and inherit some code
that I could tweak so the final executable did one thing well.
We had a couple of nightmares that originally did one thing well
but for the next project the programmer said 'That's close to
what I need. A few configuration values here and there and it
will work.' The next time around it got some more configuration
values to do something else. I have a Swiss Army knife I found;
it's in the junk drawer.>>
Well ... I'll better understand, and be able to mod, my
old programs better than you. I find 'excessive' commenting
anything BUT 'excessive'. I *enjoy* writing out the meaning
and implications of almost every step.
I comment *A LOT*. When I had to go back and revisit some very old code,
I wished I had commented more. I've almost never looked at a program and
said "I wish it had fewer comments."
+1
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