At Macromedia on the QA team for Director and the Lingo programming language, 
that's exactly what I did for a few hours every day on the Direct-L listserve.

The payback on my time spent there was invaluable.

Alex Zavatone

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> On Jun 19, 2015, at 7:27 AM, Michael David Crawford <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> When I was a system software engineer at Apple in the mid-nineties, I
> advocated that all of us should do tech support one day per week, so
> as to obtain greater insight into the needs of our users.
> 
> That went over like a lead balloon.
> 
>> On 6/19/15, Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 19 Jun 2015, at 00:01, Rick Mann <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jun 18, 2015, at 07:08 , Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> Have you ever seen a header file with a comment that goes on forever on
>>>> one line?
>>>> 
>>>> For example:
>>>> 
>>>> //                            This is a very long line of text that is 
>>>> supposed to be telling
>>>> me something useful but I can’t see the end of it without scrolling
>>>> horizontally because the developer couldn’t be bother to insert line
>>>> returns, all I can say is that they must have gigantic screen to be able
>>>> to make sense of it!
>>>> 
>>>> Is there a utility I can run that would reformat it so all comment lines
>>>> are a sensible width?
>>> 
>>> Virtually all of Apple's files are like this. I don't like turning on wrap
>>> except in readme files (because I hate it when lines of code are wrapped).
>> 
>> Me too, if they changed it so the switch was actually in the Window rather
>> than in preferences it would help.
>> 
>>> I do wish Xcode would support reformatting comment blocks natively. Filing
>>> a bug report, you should, too…
>> 
>> Yes, that would be a really good feature.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Dave
>> 
>> 
>> 
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