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Article #620681Re: Nostalgia
From: J. Clarke
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:11
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:11
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On 26 Feb 2018 06:43:24 GMT, Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote: >On Mon, 2018-02-26, Dan Espen wrote: >> 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 > >max_supported_fingers=5; # Nothing more to say But a lot more to type and that style tends to be hard to read--operators get lost in the visual noise.
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