• Punkie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I had a boss who hated comments because he wanted “clean code,” and that comments means you aren’t using the wiki. The build approval process actually stripped out all comments via a script.

    Then we lost the wiki.

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      1 year ago

      For my own amusement I’m going to pretend you were using something like Perl where determining what’s a comment and what’s code can be context sensitive.

      i.e. stripping from # to the end of the line can be a very wrong thing to do in a language where the comment marker can actually be used in other niche ways.

      Strip the wrong “comment” and your code won’t compile. Or worse, do something unexpected.