>>By convention comments are ignored, but the truth is they're not by the programmer. >Disagree. It's more like the opposite is mostly true: >By convention co

>>By convention comments are ignored, but the truth is they're not by the programmer. >Disagree. It's more like the opposite is mostly true: >By convention comments are not meant to be ignored Otherwise who on earth would write them? Who would like to write stuff that "by convention", is not going to be read?