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kmoorevs31-Jul-24 9:16
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charlieg31-Jul-24 12:02
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that's pretty religious Wink | ;)

Seems to me a bit of a pet peeve of yours. Mine as well.

I'll swing this in a different direction. There are a few people I've worked with that I term "whiz kids." Their minds work so fast, 5x faster than mine, that everything is intuitively obvious. Not one damn line of comments. No doc to save anyone's lives, nothing. I simply gave up. I completely concur about not documenting loops and i++, but module level comments are necessary. And ffs, tie the code comments back to external documentation.

Now, 40 years later, no one gives an elephant. I've worked at (counting....) 9 companies and myself, and there is only one person I can count on to write proper documentation. It's simply pathetic.
Charlie Gilley

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759

Has never been more appropriate.

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