* Posts by Brian Meadows

1 publicly visible post • joined 28 Mar 2008

Comment judiciously, refactor if needed, avoid the 'f' word

Brian Meadows

Some people can't manage

So let me get this right, programmers leaving obscene comments is an argument for not commenting? Nonsense. I've run my share of programming teams, and ANY programmer who put obscene comments in the code, let alone left them in the final version, would find out very quickly that it wasn't appreciated.

Sensible commenting IS an enormous aid when you have to take over someone else's code. I've been there, done that, far too often in my contract days to be convinced otherwise.