Stephen Satchell wrote: [lots of good advice deleted] > One goal of language designers is to REMOVE the need for comments. With a > good fourth-generation or fifth-generation language, the need for comments > diminishes to a detailed description of the data sets and any highly > unusual operations or transforms on the data. This is but a dream. You can't "design out" the need for comments by approaching natural language. Try reading a law book and realize that natural language too may be twisted to the extent that it needs extensive comments. The same goes for any computer language powerful enough to do useful work. Helge Hafting - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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