[COFF] Code/comment Ratios Style

[Chet Ramey via COFF]

On 7/20/25 5:26 PM, Warren Toomey via COFF wrote:

> So this isn't a rant so much as a request for alternate perspectives. If
> you have a spartan commenting style, why? Can you read your code and see
> all the implications, or do you dislike lots of comments, or do you write
> more external documentation etc.?

I think the age of my code base stacks up pretty well, and I find myself
commenting what I think are the complex parts and changes very heavily.
Above all, I want to be able to answer this question from my future self:
what the hell were you thinking?

I find that I'm not nearly as clever as my younger self.

Detailed change log entries are essential as well.

Chet

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``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
		 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet at case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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