From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-04-27T22:44:27+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Comments Are More Important Than Code


"Tim Hunter" <sastph@sas.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:d4o1i0$bd3$1@license1.unx.sas.com...
> Even if this is not directly about Ruby, both Jeff Raskin and the
> subject have come up before on this n.g. so I believe it's not
> altogether off-topic...
>
> Comments Are More Important Than Code
>
> http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=290

There's some truth in this.

"Many become so laconic that you have to understand the code to be able to
interpret the comment." - very nice. :-)

"Ideally, comment should be the default, with a way to signal the
occasional lines of code." - sounds like he would be a friend of
http://www.literateprogramming.com/ and especially
http://www.ross.net/funnelweb/

Kind regards

    robert