Once upon a long ago I worked on a DEC PDP 11/44. I was part of a COBOL team but we also had another team doing work with a "high-level" BASIC provided by DEC (BASIC+2 or summat). Comments were required even for the manky BASIC, and I was reviewing something after one guy left the project. All his code was in handy chunks of 15-20 lines with nearly as many comment lines between...
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All his comments were verses from a Thousand and One Arabian Nights...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
