From: a.phillip.garcia@gmail.com (A. P. Garcia)
Subject: [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:49:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFCBnZvjk0Q4EewgkHDGH6fHTjtv-XC-iH1ieCohdqs4U=euNQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5315f6af-c541-e2d5-588a-d5b7f95b479d@kilonet.net>
On Mar 21, 2018 12:51 PM, "Arthur Krewat" <krewat at kilonet.net> wrote:
On 3/21/2018 1:33 PM, George Michaelson wrote:
> I think there's a middle ground. saying "this is a loop" is not
> informative. saying "I did this as a loop because..." can be very
> informative.
>
Absolutely. Using my "comments as the plot" analogy, that would be like the
main character in a movie saying "this is a chair" instead of "this is my
dad's chair".
So much more meaning ;)
And bringing it back to UNIX, I remember reading here on this list that
comments were sanitized, removing any humor. Anyone got any good examples
of that?
Well, I remember many years ago seeing a comment in the Linux kernel to the
effect that the kernel would never be larger than 2 MB IIRC. Which to me is
kind of humorous in retrospect.
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2018-03-21 14:17 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 [this message]
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 ` [TUHS] Comments in early Unix systems Warren Toomey
2018-03-21 20:48 ` 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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-03-20 21:32 [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-03-20 1:26 A. P. Garcia
2018-03-20 1:40 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-03-20 1:47 ` maxigas
2018-03-20 4:23 ` Grant Taylor
2018-03-20 4:24 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-03-20 4:40 ` Grant Taylor
2018-03-20 5:19 ` A. P. Garcia
2018-03-21 2:31 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-03-21 3:20 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-21 4:30 ` Warner Losh
2018-03-21 4:52 ` Grant Taylor
2018-03-21 9:16 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2018-03-22 0:18 ` Grant Taylor
2018-03-22 0:22 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-21 13:59 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-21 14:18 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 15:15 ` Warner Losh
2018-03-21 15:45 ` Andy Kosela
2018-03-21 15:49 ` Warner Losh
2018-03-22 0:28 ` Grant Taylor
2018-03-20 6:32 ` Andy Kosela
2018-03-20 12:31 ` Nemo
2018-03-20 17:48 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-20 17:56 ` George Michaelson
2018-03-20 18:04 ` Dan Cross
2018-03-20 18:24 ` Bakul Shah
2018-03-20 18:46 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-20 19:10 ` Bakul Shah
2018-03-20 19:55 ` Dan Cross
2018-03-20 19:56 ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-03-20 21:12 ` A. P. Garcia
2018-03-20 21:40 ` Andy Kosela
2018-03-21 6:32 ` Wesley Parish
2018-03-20 20:14 ` Warren Toomey
2018-03-20 20:25 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-20 21:15 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-20 21:09 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-20 18:53 ` Toby Thain
2018-03-20 19:24 ` Nemo Nusquam
2018-03-21 12:10 ` emanuel stiebler
2018-03-25 19:56 ` emanuel stiebler
2018-03-26 9:44 ` George Michaelson
2018-03-26 12:38 ` emanuel stiebler
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