Code layout and debugging time
Colin Percival
colin.percival at wadham.ox.ac.uk
Tue Apr 22 13:01:07 PDT 2003
At 12:14 22/04/2003 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
>I think that there would not be a similar effect, unless the
>comments were sprinkled throughout the code like pixie dust.
>8-). [snip]
>If you ever find and Open Source that qualifies as "heavily
>commented", let us know, and we can go take a look.
Well, not Open Source, but I have seen quite a few undergraduate
programming assignments which have "pixie dust" comments. Some people take
their instructors' advice to "comment everything you write" a bit too
seriously, I think.
Colin Percival
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