Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject	Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over
Date	2025-11-02 01:17 +0000
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On Sat, 01 Nov 2025 17:32:32 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> I saw some code that took that to extremes.  That half-page limit
> included a huge comment block describing what the function did and what
> its arguments were.  That left room for half a dozen lines of real code.
> 

In the legacy code there were examples that I think were done by interns. 
Beautiful comments that may or may not be accurate. We had a programmer 
who had been a TA at the university and was known to be a stickler for 
proper commenting. In his day job he didn't comment anything and preferred 
variable names didn't exceed 3 letters.  Took me a while to figure out 
what an 'ary' was.

> Back in the good old days we had cross-reference utilities to help keep
> track of everything.  Those seem to have disappeared, although to be
> honest a text editor with good searching and bookmarking eliminates much
> of the need.

I used cscope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cscope

I liked it better than the Exuberant Ctags Vim plugin. I never used it but 
there was a PyCscope but it hasn't been touched in years. I think the 
modern IDEs have taken over. I still use gVim but my projects aren't big 
enough to require an experienced native guide to find anything.

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Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over John McCue <jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-10-31 16:52 +0000
  Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-10-31 20:19 +0000
    Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-10-31 22:45 +0000
      Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-10-31 22:35 -0400
      Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-24 23:42 +0000
      Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-25 08:07 +0100
        Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-11-25 03:58 -0500
    Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-01 11:19 +0000
      Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-11-01 17:32 +0000
        Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-11-01 21:09 -0400
          Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-02 19:09 +0000
          Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-11-02 19:30 +0000
            Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-03 02:28 +0000
        Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-02 01:17 +0000
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                Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-25 06:56 +0000
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                Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-01-12 23:40 +0000
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                Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-01-17 12:11 +0000
                Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-01-17 19:49 -0500
                Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-01-18 13:01 +0100
        Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-24 23:48 +0000

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