On 12/17/25 14:17, rbowman wrote:
On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:11:09 -0500, c186282 wrote:Probably 50% of the text in my code - doesn't matter which lang - is 'comments'.I looked at some of my code and it's pretty much comment free. There are a couple of .c files with comments that I reused from another project that have somebody's comments. I had a tendency to clone similar projects and inherit some code that I could tweak so the final executable did one thing well. We had a couple of nightmares that originally did one thing well but for the next project the programmer said 'That's close to what I need. A few configuration values here and there and it will work.' The next time around it got some more configuration values to do something else. I have a Swiss Army knife I found; it's in the junk drawer.
Well ... I'll better understand, and be able to mod, my old programs better than you. I find 'excessive' commenting anything BUT 'excessive'. I *enjoy* writing out the meaning and implications of almost every step. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-list.python.org
