[SATLUG] culture question

[Charles Hogan]

Al Castanoli wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 19:42 -0500, Storey Clamp wrote:
>> I always commented more than I personally required to benefit those 
>> following.
> 
>> Those who refuse to comment their code are implying "If you are not as 
>> brilliant as I, then you do not deserve to understand it!"
> 
> As someone who's had to unknot herds of spaghetti code over the years, I
> always figured those who refused to comment their code were merely
> proclaiming, "If this cruft was this hard to get to compile, then it
> should be hard to unobfuscate as well."
> 
> I've bitten myself before by not commenting well enough to understand
> later on, and don't look forward to any more self inflicted pain like
> that.  If I'm not commenting my stuff for posterity, at least I need to
> comment it for myself, so I can understand it well enough to reuse
> later.  Commenting code is easy - it was flowcharting my proggies that
> used to drive me ape.
> 
> Al Castanoli
> 

I hate commenting code.  I comment code religiously.  I've bitten myself 
in the butt before and don't want to go through that again.

:)