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Re: Python

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On 12/17/25 20:10, c186282 wrote:
> On 12/17/25 14:17, rbowman wrote:
>> On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:11:09 -0500, c186282 wrote:
>>
>>>     Probably 50% of the text in my code - doesn't matter which lang - is
>>>     'comments'.
>>
>> I looked at some of my code and it's pretty much comment free. There 
>> are a
>> couple of .c files with comments that I reused from another project that
>> have somebody's comments.
>>
>> I had a tendency to clone similar projects and inherit some code that I
>> could tweak so the final executable did one thing well. We had a 
>> couple of
>> nightmares that originally did one thing well but for the next project 
>> the
>> programmer said 'That's close to what I need. A few configuration values
>> here and there and it will work.'  The next time around it got some more
>> configuration values to do something else.  I have a Swiss Army knife I
>> found; it's in the junk drawer.
> 
> 
>    Well ... I'll better understand, and be able to mod, my
>    old programs better than you. I find 'excessive' commenting
>    anything BUT 'excessive'. I *enjoy* writing out the meaning
>    and implications of almost every step.
> 

I comment *A LOT*. When I had to go back and revisit some very old code, 
I wished I had commented more. I've almost never looked at a program and 
said "I wish it had fewer comments."

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