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From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Forced Commenting
Message-ID: <498@eosp1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Jan-84 17:39:32 EST
Article-I.D.: eosp1.498
Posted: Thu Jan  5 17:39:32 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Jan-84 04:23:25 EST
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Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ
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I don't know of a compiler or assembler that forces comments,
but I'm not sure it would do much good.  Haven't you seen
comments like these:

C	Now multiply total times percent:
	AMOUNT = TOTAL * PERCEN

C	Check whether switch is nonzero:
	IF SWITCH .NE. 0 goto 1200

C	open the "squmxk" file:
	...and so on.

Or, my favorite in assembly language comment:

	ADD R1,R2	;add register 2 to register 1

Good comments are written by people who know what they are doing and
want to do it.
				  - Toby Robison
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