From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Easily-Read C++?
Date: 11 Oct 1994 14:43:31 -0400
Date: 1994-10-11T14:43:31-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37emcj$sk5@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 124377@cup.portal.com
There are to my mind three justifications for comments:
Saying WHY you are doing something, and WHY you did it that way
Saying WHY you did NOT do something, and WHY you did NOT
Describing WHAT the code does, but at a higher level of abstraction
than the code itself.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1994-10-11 18:43 UTC|newest]
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1994-10-05 3:00 Easily-Read C++? Ken Garlington
1994-10-05 9:42 ` Pierre Castori
1994-10-05 13:28 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-06 2:20 ` Benjamin Ketcham
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1994-10-12 3:19 ` Attractive comments better? R_Tim_Coslet
1994-10-13 1:35 ` Michael Feldman
1994-10-12 17:03 ` Easily-Read C++? John DiCamillo
1994-10-05 14:26 ` Eric S. Sessoms
1994-10-05 17:47 ` Kevin Cline
1994-10-05 22:02 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-05 22:23 ` Richard Kenner
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1994-10-11 18:11 ` David Weller
1994-10-11 18:43 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1994-10-12 13:15 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-10-12 14:10 ` Robert Firth
1994-10-13 19:33 ` John D. Reading
1994-10-13 0:51 ` Keith Thompson @pulsar
1994-10-05 18:24 ` Magnus Kempe
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1994-10-11 13:00 ` Robert Firth
1994-10-11 13:44 ` Casper H.S. Dik
1994-10-11 19:03 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-12 16:38 ` John DiCamillo
1994-10-11 18:52 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-12 13:49 ` Norman H. Cohen
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1994-10-11 18:55 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-12 13:35 ` John M. Mills
1994-10-12 19:48 ` Robert Dewar
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1994-10-11 17:50 ` Norman H. Cohen
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1994-10-11 18:02 ` Norman H. Cohen
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1994-10-12 17:37 ` "Tag" (Was: Easily-Read C++? (NOT)) David Emery
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1994-10-11 18:37 ` Easily-Read C++? Norman H. Cohen
1994-10-12 16:54 ` David Emery
1994-10-14 21:13 ` Kevin Cline
1994-10-21 14:38 ` Thomas M. Breuel
1994-10-22 3:10 ` Michael M. Bishop
1994-10-26 0:39 ` -mlc-+Schilling J.
1994-10-27 14:54 ` Bob Duff
1994-10-27 15:35 ` Richard Kenner
1994-10-27 23:09 ` Robert Dewar
1994-11-01 21:19 ` Adam Beneschan
1994-11-02 0:46 ` Bob Duff
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1994-10-12 3:06 Easily-Read C++ Ken Garlington
1994-10-14 10:50 Easily-Read C++? Bob Wells #402
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