Re: [tlug] Printers for linux, was: refurbished Thinkpad X60 with Coreboot & Linux

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

On Monday, December 30, 2013, Stephen J. Turnbull  wrote:
> Benjamin Tayehanpour writes:
>
>  > Well, isn't that what code comments are for? *ducks*
>
> You'd better duck.  After a couple revisions, code comments are a
> device for ensuring that little bit of residual FUD, even though you
> *know* what the code does from reading it.  The code is crystal clear
> but the comments, oh boy!

In a book I recently read (I think it was "Clean Code", but I can't remember for sure), the author posited that "every comment in code is a failure". He made the exception of comments that are there to explain the why.

Cheers,

Josh

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