Remind me never to hire you. :-)
--John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of R. D. Davis
> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 17:44 PM
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Write only programming
>
>
> Quothe Frank McConnell, from writings of Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at
> 09:39:39PM -0800:
> > No comments? I think you're forgetting the potential of comments as
> > things whose maintenance is a lesser priority and whose relationship
> > to the code may therefore differ from the reader's expectations.
>
> :-)
>
> Another useful thing to do wiht comments is to obfuscate them - for
> example, write them in Morse code. Also, it can be useful to have a
> program, or script, which strips all *useful* comments from code,
> which is ideal for "work for hire" situations; e.g., you want to be
> able to read the useful comments for future reference to make your
> life easier, but you don't want your employer or cow-orkers to be able
> to see them in the copy of the code that they receive, with your copy
> of the code saved as an encrypted file.
>
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