Re: Python

On 12/17/25 14:17, rbowman wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:11:09 -0500, c186282 wrote:
> 
>>     Probably 50% of the text in my code - doesn't matter which lang - is
>>     'comments'.
> 
> I looked at some of my code and it's pretty much comment free. There are a
> couple of .c files with comments that I reused from another project that
> have somebody's comments.
> 
> I had a tendency to clone similar projects and inherit some code that I
> could tweak so the final executable did one thing well. We had a couple of
> nightmares that originally did one thing well but for the next project the
> programmer said 'That's close to what I need. A few configuration values
> here and there and it will work.'  The next time around it got some more
> configuration values to do something else.  I have a Swiss Army knife I
> found; it's in the junk drawer.


   Well ... I'll better understand, and be able to mod, my
   old programs better than you. I find 'excessive' commenting
   anything BUT 'excessive'. I *enjoy* writing out the meaning
   and implications of almost every step.