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> Other wasteful comments are added by some tools. I hate the one that marks every loop wiht a //for or //try comment. Oh god, that's horrible, what kind of to
by Attrecomet 2y ago
> Other wasteful comments are added by some tools. I hate the one that marks every loop wiht a //for or //try comment.
Oh god, that's horrible, what kind of tool does that?!
- narag 2y agoI don't know, the guy is no longer around. Maybe some code-completion tool (write "for" and it completes the syntax) because it's all over the place.
- b112 2y agoEventually, we find out he wrote it all manually.
- skipkey 2y agoIt was pretty common say 25 years ago when you would be developing in a terminal. When you were limited in the number of lines displayed, it sometimes made it easier to follow the code when functions and control structures were large. I know I had coworkers using brief configured to do that.
- throwaway14356 2y agoi think it had something to do with indentation being all over the place.