On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Lusercop wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:06:10PM +0000, Steve Campbell wrote:
> > (1) If anyone tells you that their code isn't commented because "if you
> > don't understand it you shouldn't be touching it", please kill them.
>
> procmail-3.22/src/sublib.c has this to say:
> | /*
> | * My personal strstr() implementation that beats most other algorithms.
> | * Until someone tells me otherwise, I assume that this is the
> | * fastest implementation of strstr() in C.
> | * I deliberately chose not to comment it. You should have at least
> | * as much fun trying to understand it, as I had to write it :-).
> | */
>
> I'll re-iterate FANF's comment on this: Wanker.
Surely appropriate comments are to be found in Knuth, modulo instruction
bumming.
S.
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