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On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:52:33 -0800 (PST), sohcahtoa82@gmail.com declaimed
the following:

>
>I blame CS professors that demand that every line of code be commented.
>
># increment x
>x += 1

	Taken literally, that should mean

x += 1		# increment x

{And now we are back to my college assembly days... where rolling the
project source listing across the length of the hallway revealed what my
partner had worked on vs what I'd worked on... My code used the width of
the paper with comments, his was pretty sparse*.


*	His was also non-functional; as a senior all he wanted was a passing
grade of any level; I was a year or two lower... Since my part was the text
formatter to his input/output processes, there was no way to test my code.
Fortunately the instructor decided to take the higher of the final project
or the final exam and ignore the other -- so my exam score worked out}
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
    wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

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Most gratuitous comments Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-11-20 04:58 +0000
  Re: Most gratuitous comments Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-20 16:06 +1100
  Re: Most gratuitous comments Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-11-20 12:04 +0000
  Re: Most gratuitous comments sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2014-11-20 10:52 -0800
    Re: Most gratuitous comments cl@isbd.net - 2014-11-20 21:32 +0000
      Re: Most gratuitous comments sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2014-11-20 13:43 -0800
        Re: Most gratuitous comments Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-11-21 10:16 +1100
          Re: Most gratuitous comments sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2014-11-20 15:59 -0800
            Re: Most gratuitous comments Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-21 11:17 +1100
              Re: Most gratuitous comments sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2014-11-20 16:19 -0800
                Re: Most gratuitous comments Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-21 11:33 +1100
            Re: Most gratuitous comments Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-11-21 08:52 +0200
              Re: Most gratuitous comments Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-11-21 17:04 +0000
              Re: Most gratuitous comments Marco Buttu <marco.buttu@gmail.com> - 2014-11-25 13:40 +0100
                Re: Most gratuitous comments Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-11-25 14:53 +0200
                Re: Most gratuitous comments Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-11-26 01:47 +1100
      Re: Most gratuitous comments Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-11-20 23:18 +0000
    Re: Most gratuitous comments Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-11-20 21:39 -0500
  Re: Most gratuitous comments Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2014-11-20 20:09 +0100
  Re: Most gratuitous comments albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-12-04 09:48 +0000
    Re: Most gratuitous comments Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@technologyhighland.invalid> - 2014-12-04 09:12 -0800
  Re: Most gratuitous comments sjmsoft@gmail.com - 2014-12-04 07:08 -0800

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