Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Jul 1996 22:36:15 -0400 | From | "Darrin R. Smith" <> | Subject | Re: Not a bible thumper. . . |
| |
Herbert Wengatz wrote: > > > If someone really hunts a nasty bug for ??? Days/Weeks, I can understand such comments > *VERY* good. (I just hung for three days in very important project whose end-date > is very soon...) > As long as the most are comments, we can keep them. Any programmer (only those > will read the sources!) will understand the feelings the author has had and as well > will regard this as an explicit warning not to F*CK around with that special code. > > Linux is not a "streamlined", high-tech, noble, elite, "pay-too-much-for" product, > like any M$-software. It's rough and crude, since it's written by many developers > from all over the world. You can't expect that they all use a "plain nice high-school- > english". So you can't expect the Linux-sources to be a correct reading for a six year old > girl. Leave the comments in, they are for those who need them and kick out only > the dirty part, which may reach the day-by-day-simple-end-user. > > On the other hand, I assume, you'd find some of these expressions in the M$-Sources, too. > :-) > > Regards, > > Herbert
I've been reading this thread for a while now, and I have to vote for leaving all comments that do not reach the end user as they are. Changing them would be a bad idea as they help to express the personal feelings of the developer to the reader. I don't see how they could be changed without changing the basic intention of the comment(and I have read the suggestions posted here, too). As an interesting side note, I work for a large corp. here, and I have seen a fair amount of the code written by the developers. Using vulgarity for expression in source code is _very_ common since no one will see it but the developers and their bosses.
--Darrin
> _____________________________________________________________________ > Herbert Wengatz, 81375 Munich |Disclaim: This Mail is my own opinion, > Office :hwe@uebemc.siemens.de |not that of my company. > Private:hwe@rtfact.muc.de | http://www.muc.de/~hwe/rtfact > "Excellence is a moving target."
-- FAQ Suggestions: Q: I upgraded without reading release notes, now my system's broke - why? A: What the @!#* did you expect? (this assumes that someone reads the faq, of course ;)
| |