[COFF] Code/comment Ratios Style

[Chet Ramey via COFF]

On 7/21/25 10:24 AM, Paul Winalski wrote:
> IMO the skill of writing and maintaining good, useful comments is one of 
> the things that distinguishes software engineering from mere programming.
> 
> I learned early in my software engineering career that sometimes even after 
> a few months away from the code I wrote I couldn't remember all the fine 
> details of the design.  So I wrote comments for my own self-preservation, 
> let alone giving another developer a fighting chance of knowing what's 
> going on if they had to change my code.

To answer the eternal question: what the hell were you thinking? :-)

-- 
``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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