[Coco] Bill Gates and CoCo BASIC assembly book

[John Donaldson]

Gene, It the same today. The other day I was putting comments into a program 
that I was making a enhancement to and another programmer wander by and wanted 
to know what I was doing. I told him I was adding some comment lines so that the 
next programmer that looked at this section would know what was done. He looked 
at me a little confused and wander off. I have only worked at two companies 
where the Software/Engineering Manager dictated that we were to document our 
code via inline comments. Every place else I have worked including here (DEA) 
you only find occasional comments in a program. 


JohnD




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From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Sent: Thu, November 8, 2012 9:06:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Bill Gates and CoCo BASIC assembly book

On Thursday 08 November 2012 20:58:42 Arthur Flexser did opine:

> I recall hearing through the grapevine many years ago that someone
> from Microsoft commented to the Spectral Associates people who put
> together the Unravelled series that the Unravelled disassembly was way
> better commented than the original Microsoft source code.  Seems very
> plausible to me.
> 
> Art

Chuckle.  Now that I have no problem believing, Art.  With comments, they 
might have known better what it was that they were doing.  I swear, their 
theory was that the better it was obfuscated, the longer it might last 
before some talented coder that didn't work for M$ figured out what was 
going on.  The usual back-stabbing mentality at M$, job security is when 
only one person has that code in their head.

Cheers, Gene
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