On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 09:43:13PM -0500, Megan wrote: I've been noticing the same thing when going source diving in the Linux kernel and lots of other places. I think 5% would be a pretty generous guess there (unless you count all the copyright crap and credits), most of the time there isn't a single comment anywhere on the screen I'm looking at. I think that a big part of the cause is indentation. C code wanders all over the screen, while assembly code generally stays put in the left half. So the right half of the screen is always available for comments -- the code looks naked without them! If you can lay your hands on unstripped sources to DEC PDP-11 OSes, they're really nice examples of well-commented assembly language (no I'm not kissing ass, I haven't seen the full RT sources so I wouldn't even know, but RSX and particularly RSTS are really wonderful to read). I can usually find the answer to my question very easily there, meanwhile with Linux I sometimes have to dig through the sources for hours just to find the place that interests me, and even then half the time I just have to fill it with printfs and recompile to see what it actually does, since I can't figure out what it's *supposed* to do. John Wilson D Bit