From: david@kdbarto.org (David)
Subject: [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised/Comments in code
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 12:01:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C4983039-5958-4336-ADFE-9A20DA9767B7@kdbarto.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.68.1521732132.3788.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
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> From: Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org>
> Yep, and I'm glad that I had bosses to whom I didn't have to explain why
> my comments were so voluminous.
>
> And who first said "Write your code as though the next person to maintain
> it is a psychotic axe-wielding murderer who knows where you live"? I've
> often thought that way (as the murderer I mean, not the murderee).
>
> I'd name names, but he might be on this list...
>
I’ve always said that the person was a ‘reformed’ axe-wielding murderer
who knows where you live.
Please, a little decorum.
W.R.T. comments in code, and a bit of Unix, when I taught Unix Systems
programming at UCSD one of my students wanted to use his personal
computer for the programming. I didn’t care as long as it would pass the
tests I ran after the fact.
After his second homework was turned in, I stopped looking at his code
or even running it, as the comment blocks were just so well done. Nary
a comment in the function itself, just a block before each one very clearly
explaining what was happening.
David
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