Re: Nostalgia

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From: Joe Pfeiffer
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 03:25

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Dan Espen <dan1...@gmail.com> writes:

> Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 17:29:16 +0000, Huge wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 2018-02-25, Andrew Swallow <am.sw...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> [15 lines snipped]
>>>> 
>>>>> Reading Fortran and Assembler code tells you how, it does not tell you
>>>>> why. Comments are needed for that.
>>>> 
>>>> *applause*
>>>> 
>>>> Anyone who writes code like this should be shot;
>>>> 
>>>> x=5;		# Set x to 5
>>> 
>>> Strangely, I was doing generic feedback for an assignment about an hour 
>>> ago. I repeated this statement, but not in Huge terms. (the external 
>>> examiner will read it)
>>
>> When you start writing assembler everyone says you should put a comment on
>> every line, so you tend to do a lot of this until you get the  idea.
>
> Putting a comment on every line makes it simpler to
> read the whole program as comments.  With highlighting
> this is an easy way to quickly absorb a module.
>
> Of course the comments may not be 100% right.
>
> In the above case, the code still needs a comment
> but it should be something like:
>
> x=5;		# Max supported fingers

That's exactly the point.

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From: Joe Pfeiffer <pfei...@cs.nmsu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Nostalgia
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