Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/11/11, Richard Fateman <fateman at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Now, all of this can be handled using CVS IF everyone reads all the comments
> and understands all the parts. And having comments in the code might
> not prevent it from happening. But certainly the amount of comment is not
> such a burden that extra stuff (if accurate) should be discarded.
Nobody has argued for putting all of the comments in CVS.
> I have heard arguments that any comments are bad. Code should be
> so clear that comments are not only unnecessary, but hazardous, because
> the program might be changed and then the pre-existing comments would be
> misleading, so better not to have any.
> I disagree with that view :)
Nobody has argued for omitting comments entirely.
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