Programming language failings [was Re: strangest systems I've sent email from]

On 04/29/2016 11:59 AM, Ian S. King wrote: Maybe--I can't say. At a very early stage in my career, I was exposed to "coding standards" as well as "code review". I took great pride in that few reviewers had any quibbles with my code. Those coding standards extended to the type of commentary required as well as the convention for naming routines, variables and labels. It was anticipated that commentary for a routine could be automatically extracted and be close to what was expected for an internal maintenance document. Do it enough and it becomes a habit for life. This is from when assembly was the language of the day. I've run across old programs that I found myself marveling at for the clarity and discipline of coding, only to find that it was some program that I'd forgotten that I'd written did 30 years before. But all that was in the day of punched cards and printed listings and red pencils. I don't know what people do now. --Chuck