From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 31 06:00:41 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA01806 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 06:00:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA01800; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 06:00:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA07902; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 05:55:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from s204m82.isp.whistle.com(207.76.204.82) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdAh7900; Sun Jan 31 13:55:41 1999 Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 05:55:33 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer X-Sender: julian@s204m82.isp.whistle.com To: Bruce Evans cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, newton@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern sys_socket.c kern_exit.c kern_resource.c In-Reply-To: <199901311349.AAA19834@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk none of which applies to the "correct" comments you were complaining about. On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: > >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message