When I was drafted into teaching a programming class I warned my student that I would take points off for pointless comments.
However, the putting the source code into the object code as comments in the PL/S output does serve a purpose. Or are you referrin to /* ... */ comment in the PL/S source code? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2025 3:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: The mainfeame is alive External Message: Use Caution On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 14:56:57 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >You don't usually see a comment on every line. In a well constructed program >you only see comments where they add values, e.g., readability, >maintainability, change tracking. > I saw a PL/S listing on fiche. Every source line bore a comment. I surmised it was a coding standard, perhaps enforced mechanically. And those comments likewise, might as well have been generated mechanically. I could write a macro to do that. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
