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Comments (was: Python)

From ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Comments (was: Python)
Date 2026-03-04 17:17 +0000
Organization Stefan Ram
Message-ID <comments-20260304175558@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> (permalink)
References (18 earlier) <mqgdu2Fng8U3@mid.individual.net> <fsidnRnSK9Uz7d70nZ2dnZfqnPednZ2d@giganews.com> <10i13o0$c16d$1@dont-email.me> <wwvike3r7oy.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk> <10o9mre$327a7$3@dont-email.me>

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"Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote or quoted:
>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.

  Comments in two different languages seem to be add additional
  workload and a distraction with little benefit. Every programmer
  can read and write English.

  There are several types of comments:

  - documentation comments tell callers how to use a feature
    documenting its interfaces,

  - implementation comments explain how an implementation
    accomplishes (implements) a given interface,

  - work comments contain notes for programmers helping them
    build and change the code, such as "todo: . . .", "fixme:
    . . ."), etc., and

  - log comments provide a history of the project and of edit
    sessions.

  Implementation comments should not try to reduplicate what the
  code obviously does, but rather explain, what a piece of code
  is /intended/ to do and /why/ certain choices where made.

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