From: Paul Knight <paulymer5ml@...>
Date: 2007-09-20T19:25:46+09:00
Subject: Re: how can I remove all the comments in my c program.

On Sep 20, 2007, at 3:15 AM, Vellingiri Arul wrote:

> Paul Knight wrote:
>> On Sep 20, 2007, at 2:08 AM, Marcin Raczkowski wrote:
>>
>>> [C]ould you tell me one legitimate reason to remove comments from c
>>> code?
>>
>> Perhaps the original poster is going to run some custom code metrics
>> or code analysis, but wants to get rid of comments first.
>>
>> Perhaps the original poster is going to annotate the code in a
>> different way, by surrounding it with prose, and the comments would
>> obfuscate rather than illuminate.
>>
>> Perhaps it's for golfing.
>>
>> Perhaps it's for an art project. Or an illustration for an argument.
>>
>> Perhaps the original poster hasn't thought it all the way through.
>>
>> Perhaps it's something dark, sinister, and nefarious. But perhaps  
>> not.
>>
>> Perhaps the original poster could respond?
>>
>> --Paulymer
> Hello,
>    What do you want?Why are you scolding me like that.
> If we are asking only doubts,If you know tell yes.otherwise you  
> tell no.
> Don't speak nonsence others.
> ok.
>
> by
> velligniri.
>

We're curious why you want to strip out comments, and whether it may  
or may not be a good idea. I wanted to suggest to several others that  
there are legitimate reasons, though a few of them might be slightly  
misguided. Perhaps if you explained why you want to get rid of the  
comments, it would clear up some of the messages in this thread.

--Paulymer