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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Python
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On 2026-03-04 21:01, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <10o9mre$327a7$3@dont-email.me>,
> Michael F. Stemper <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 18/12/2025 12.00, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>> Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> writes:
>>>> 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."
>>>
>>> Regrettably, I’ve encountered plenty of comments that don’t actually
>>> reflect the code (for a variety of reasons).
>>>
>>> If the code is wrong and the comment is right then that’s great, you
>>> have a nice hint about how to fix the code, assuming you realize there’s
>>> a problem at all.
>>>
>>> However if the code is right but the comment is wrong then the comment
>>> is worse than nothing. The code would be improved by removing it
>>> (although almost certainly improved even more by correcting it).
>>
>> I encountered a perverse version of that. My (US) employer was purchased
>> by a German firm. We began adapting their code base for NAFTA market
>> requirements. The good news was that every comment was written twice:
>> once in German and once in English.
>>
>> The bad news? I knew enough German to be able to tell that the two paired
>> comments sometimes disagreed on what was being done or how it was done.
>>
> 
> A man with one clock knows what time it is.  A man with two is never
> quite sure...

Experimental science would not agree.

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Cheers, Carlos.
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