Re: Encouraging good comments Which language ?

[HyperHacker <hyperhacker@...>]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 00:40, Patrick Rapin <toupie300@gmail.com> wrote:
>> What language is most likely to encourage good commenting ( What is being done and why ? )  and make the code easier to support by a future maintainer  ?
>> Or is this just not something that is influenced by the language......
>
> Personally, I only write extensive comments in Assembly language, and
> for complex Perl regular expressions...
> Because otherwise, I cannot read back my own code.
> IMHO, Lua does not encourage good commenting, because the language is
> already quite clean.
> It is easier to maintain uncommented Lua code than a well commented
> one in assembly language !
>

True, ideally your code would be so clear and readable that comments
aren't even necessary, but I think that may never be a reality until
computers can understand natural language...

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