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From: "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee>
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Am 22.02.2013 01:51, schrieb Richard:
> [Please do not mail me a copy of your followup]
> 
> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> spake the secret code
> <kg66k7$b7j$1@news.albasani.net> thusly:
> 
>> Don't ever take up coding professionally.
> 
> I've been paid to write software for 35 years.
> 
>> The rule of 'more lines of comment than code' holds...
> 
> IMO, unless you are citing sources for complex scientific computation,
> or algorithms from a referenced source (i.e. "I took this from Knuth,
> Art of Computer Programming, Volume II, pg. 235"), the need for
> comments indicates that your code isn't clear enough to begin with.
> 

Well, I generally like strong ideas.

But you should have experienced that especially geniuses need to comment their code,
to make clear to posterity that what others see as obfuscated code, is geniality in
reality.

/Str.