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>so when did comments start hurting?

>From the beginning.  Kernighan and Plauger, in "The Elements of
Progamming Style", second edition (1984) give many reasons in the
index alone:

    comments, agreement of code and  142
    comments, excessive  104, 151
    comments, incorrect  70, 88, 142, 143, 151
    comments, subconcious acceptance of  142
    comments, useless  142

Bruce

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