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Subject:Re: respect for the button slogan From:"Lin Sims" <linda -dot- sims -at- verizon -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:15:43 -0400
The original version of this (I saw it YEARS ago at a science fiction
conventions) is:
Real programmers don't _comment_. If it was hard to write, it
should be hard to understand.
They're not talking about how to use the program (once it's
compiled), they're talking about how to figure out what's going on in
the program CODE, if you're updating it.
It's internal documentation, and just as important as end user
documentation. I wonder if it's something any TW actually does
(documenting the code, that is), although I know I haven't, nor have
I met anyone who has.
Lin
Knowledge is Power.
Power Corrupts.
Study Hard. Be Evil.
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A landmark hotel, one of America's most beautiful cities, and
three and a half days of immersion in the state of the art:
IPCC 01, Oct. 24-27 in Santa Fe. http://ieeepcs.org/2001/
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