From: wkt@tuhs.org (Warren Toomey)
Subject: [TUHS] Comments in early Unix systems
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 06:28:10 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180321202810.GA6280@minnie.tuhs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABH=_VT+Pu=xZ=vk30Z3JrZN0cf=BG6hg7x++FTnb4iptzbNMw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 04:13:42PM -0400, Paul Winalski wrote:
>To bring this back to Unix, how well have the various commenting
>principles we've been discussing been adhered to in the code base?
This is something that has bugged me forever.
The Unix design is simple and elegant. The manuals are lucid and
understandable. However, there is next to no commenting in the
early code bases. Why? [and I know ken is reading this]
Given that the comments never made it into the compiled code, there
was no space reason to omit comments. There must have been another
reason.
Cheers, Warren
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-21 20:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-21 14:17 [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised Noel Chiappa
2018-03-21 15:03 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-21 16:18 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 17:28 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 17:33 ` George Michaelson
2018-03-21 17:50 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 19:49 ` A. P. Garcia
2018-03-21 19:37 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 17:34 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-22 2:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-03-21 17:39 ` WIlliam Cheswick
2018-03-21 17:52 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 17:56 ` Nemo
2018-03-21 18:01 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-21 18:04 ` Dan Cross
2018-03-21 19:56 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-21 20:04 ` [TUHS] comments ( was daemons exorcised ) Earl Baugh
2018-03-21 20:18 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 20:51 ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-21 20:13 ` [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 20:28 ` Warren Toomey [this message]
2018-03-21 20:48 ` [TUHS] Comments in early Unix systems Ron Natalie
2018-03-21 22:18 ` William Corcoran
2018-03-21 23:02 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-22 1:31 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-21 23:17 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 23:50 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-22 0:55 ` Mike Markowski
2018-03-22 1:00 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-21 23:45 ` Warner Losh
2018-03-22 0:31 ` Steve Johnson
2018-03-22 0:58 ` Andy Kosela
2018-03-22 1:27 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-22 1:59 ` Bakul Shah
2018-03-22 14:46 ` Steve Simon
2018-03-22 15:22 ` ron minnich
2018-03-22 16:22 ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-22 16:32 ` arnold
2018-03-22 20:20 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-03-22 16:33 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-03-23 1:31 ` Charles Anthony
2018-03-22 1:40 Noel Chiappa
2018-03-22 2:19 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-03-22 13:49 Doug McIlroy
2018-03-22 14:29 ` Nemo
2018-03-23 1:54 Doug McIlroy
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