On 12/18/25 13:00, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
Peter Flass writes:
I comment *A LOT*. When I had to go back and revisit some very old
code, I wished I had commented more. I've almost never looked at a
program and said "I wish it had fewer comments."
Regrettably, I’ve encountered plenty of comme
On 12/18/25 09:40, Peter Flass wrote:
On 12/17/25 20:10, c186282 wrote:
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
On 12/18/25 01:54, rbowman wrote:
On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:02:24 -0500, c186282 wrote:
Oh, I usually write "i=i+2". It's a bit more clear and becomes the
same code anyway. += is more a 'C' thing.
And Python, C#, JavaScript, C++, ...
Well, I know it *wor
On 12/17/25 17:11, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:17:30 -0500, Dan Espen wrote:
Lawrence D’Oliveiro writes:
On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:57:57 +, mm0fmf wrote:
On 14 Dec 2025 11:56:42 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
My issues with python are:
- It's using indentations, s
On 12/17/25 22:28, John Levine wrote:
According to c186282 :
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 implicat
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
On 12/16/25 20:54, rbowman wrote:
On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:45:42 - (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:57:57 +, mm0fmf wrote:
On 14 Dec 2025 11:56:42 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
My issues with python are:
- It's using indentations, so when I comment a block of
On 12/15/25 07:57, mm0fmf wrote:
On 14/12/2025 23:29, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
On 14 Dec 2025 11:56:42 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
My issues with python are:
- It's using indentations, so when I comment a block of code to see
''' and ''' are your friend
And maybe stop using edlin etc.
