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Our code base still has ghost comments about code being just so because the NeXT compiler won't accept it any other way. No one has the heart to remove them.
by verytrivial 2y ago
Our code base still has ghost comments about code being just so because the NeXT compiler won't accept it any other way. No one has the heart to remove them.
- nortlov 2y agoI imagine future engineers as archaeologists of software development, in a way, digging through ghost comments like fossils in the code.
- chrisweekly 2y agofuture engineers? archaeology is an essential part of virtually every real-world software project
- jamesfinlayson 2y agoI picked up a project from 1999 a few years ago that still had far pointer macros - I didn't think they were still a thing in 1999 so I'm not sure why they were there to start with. I think I've left them though.