Re^8: On comments

If you've justified the addition of a comment in a piece of otherwise sparingly commented code, you can bet your bottom dollar I am going to give it my full attention.

++ Increasing verbosity --> decreasing attention.

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Re^9: On comments by JavaFan (Canon) on Dec 29, 2010 at 18:07 UTC
++ Increasing verbosity --> decreasing attention. Yeah, that's why you should always golf your production code, then it gets the most attention from the person maintaining it.	[reply]
Re^10: On comments by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Dec 29, 2010 at 18:30 UTC
We were discussing plain English comments (or whatever local lingo). I suppose if I had written 10 paragraphs explaining that, you wouldn't have bothered reading it and therefore wouldn't have replied. Next time I'll know better.	[reply]