Re: "dselect" replacement team
>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@calder.med.miami.edu> writes:
> You can put in some comments, but for this issue I fall in with
> Ian and Mark---if you can't figure it out without comments, you
> probably weren't meant to modify it. I say this as someone who
> religiously comments my own code, and has done bug fixes on
> dpkg---it should not be too easy. Period. Some high-level
> narrative guidance as to what's going on is fine, but if you're
> commenting at the statement level, you're handing loaded guns to
> children.
/* How will I learn to read and understand programs, if none of you
# ever comment the code there is for me to read and try and understand?
;; I don't plan to modify most programs I look at; I just want to learn
// how they work so I can write code someday. There are a lot of guys
! like me! I'm just a new gnu. */
--
Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@inetarena.com>
http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg
Portland, OR USA
Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.0.29t
You tell me and we'll both know.
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