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From: khw@druky.UUCP (WilliamsonKH)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Does Bell strip comments?
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Date: Thu, 24-May-84 10:56:42 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 24 10:56:42 1984
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The recent submission in net.bugs.usg on a fgrep bug indicates to me that the
older programmers did not necessarily understand their code without comments,
but merely deluded themselves into thinking they did.  I tried for a little
while to understand the fgrep code in order to make a change, but gave it up
as not worth the considerable effort.  It really is pretty rank.

Nobody has answered the original question which has started all this
discussion.  I don't know the answer either, but I'll hazard a guess that
there were never very many comments in the original source, so even if they
stripped them, it would not cut the number of lines shipped out noticeably.