21 Mar
2018
21 Mar
'18
8:49 p.m.
On Mar 21, 2018 12:51 PM, "Arthur Krewat" <krewat(a)kilonet.net> wrote:
On 3/21/2018 1:33 PM, George Michaelson wrote:
I think there's a middle ground. saying
"this is a loop" is not
informative. saying "I did this as a loop because..." can be very
informative.
Absolutely. Using my "comments as the plot" analogy, that would be like
the
main character in a movie saying "this is a chair" instead of "this is my
dad's chair".
So much more meaning ;)
And bringing it back to UNIX, I remember reading here on this list that
comments were sanitized, removing any humor. Anyone got any good examples
of that?
Well, I remember many years ago seeing a comment in the Linux kernel to the
effect that the kernel would never be larger than 2 MB IIRC. Which to me is
kind of humorous in retrospect.