Why isn't Rev more popular?

Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Fri Dec 2 19:15:37 EST 2005


Dennis-

Friday, December 2, 2005, 2:31:09 PM, you wrote:

> Even though Transcript is pretty verbose, I find that I need to add
> 25-50% more characters as comments to be able to go back and figure
> out what I wrote easily.  I don't see how it is possible to have the
> what convey the why, and even the what need some help now and then.

Just my opinion, but I don't even think it's *desirable* to have as a
goal code that doesn't need comments. Code is code - it's not prose;
it comes closer to poetry, but even poetry can be impenetrable without
a lot of annotation.

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net




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