On Mar 21, 2018 12:51 PM, "Arthur Krewat" <krewat@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.