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Value of Comments

    10-May-90 16:53:49
Sb: #103436-Value of Comments
Fm: Mike Spille/Manx 71545,1466
To: Black Belt Systems 76004,1771
Oh my <insert personal deity> – I actually agree with you on something 😎 Comments are often wrong/misleading/useless, and I've seen lots of code where the comments hurt alot more than they've helped. This isn't to say that all commented code is hard to read, just that some people don't comment well and would be better off w/out any (or at least not many). What I really hate are comments like: foo++; /* Increment foo by 1 */ which serve no purpose but to clutter up the program. -Mike