Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!uh2 From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Control flow and common sense Message-ID: <41892UH2@PSUVM> Date: 7 May 88 13:27:32 GMT References: <4605@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <41445UH2@PSUVM> <1122@daisy.UUCP> Organization: Penn Sate Erie--School of Business Lines: 18 In article <1122@daisy.UUCP>, david@daisy.UUCP (David Schachter) says: > >One fellow I know documented a particularly complex and obscure code with the >comment "This procudure implements thealgorithm given >on page of by ". (The angle bracketed items >are mine.) > >Real helpful. If I want to understand his code, I have to get the book from >a speciality bookstore or get my company to purchase library access at Stanford Tastes differ, and gentlefolk can disagree. I am usually delighted when this type of comment appears in the code. The book nearly always makes much better reading than some guys half-literate comments. Real Soon Now, we'll all be using Xanadu, and the comments in the code will actually point at the reference on a disk somewhere, and you'll be able to access it online. 8-) lee