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From: hughes@math.Berkeley.EDU (eric hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: comments on comments
Keywords: comments
Message-ID: <20329@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 13 Feb 89 21:56:18 GMT
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In-reply-to: perry@apollo.COM (Jim Perry)

In article <20233@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> I write:
>>I had a friend once who was taking an assembly language class
>>where the teacher required every program line to be commented.
[story deleted]

In article <4173bd76.183dc@apollo.COM>, perry@apollo (Jim Perry) writes:
>[Did you ever see this friend's filter?  I suspect this is an urban
>myth, as rumors of such "tools" was common (at Dartmouth, and I'm
>guessing elsewhere) in the mid-to-late '70's.]

I am almost sure it is not.  I have a particular friend in mind,
who know works in Boston.  As I recall, he wrote it for an IBM-PC
for MASM code and the filter was implemented in SNOBOL, a string
processing language.  I may be mistaken.  I will call him up
and find out for sure.

Eric Hughes
hughes@math.berkeley.edu   ucbvax!math!hughes