12 Mar
2000
12 Mar
'00
1:53 p.m.
Megan wrote:
Unfortunately, it appears that those who advocate and
write in C
and other such structured languages appear to have lost the ability
to comment their code (at least it seems that way from all the code
I look at at work -- I would say a mere 5% is really commented).
They appear to assume that C code is itself sufficient commenting...
It doesn't work.
This may well be true, but C programmers are not the only offenders. The
worst period of my career was converting COBOL gorilla-code to C. The
unstructured, uncommented COBOL code was in some cases so indecipherable that
I simply dug out the original spec and threw the COBOL away. Unfortunately,
this wasn't always possible . . .
I myself heavily comment my C code, since I have to maintain it and can't
always rely on my failing memory ;>)
Glen Goodwin
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