me, 2.0: jose nazario
beauty and the street
comments in code
another stencil in an alleyway in ann arbor. sadly, painted over soon
after this was taken.
an interesting essay brought to light by slashdot, Comments Are More Important Than Code,
brings up a few points. some tips if you're thinking about your
code or your coworkers.
use an automatic documentation system like doxygen (or any of the myraid of related tools)
to generate some docs without any extra effort on your own. see how
badly they suck, now go tune your code to suit your doc's needs. a cheap
and easy way to measure your code structure and comments.
use a consistent naming scheme. one thing i stole from dug song is to
name my "private" (not to be exported) interfaces by prepending them with
an underscore. the compiler doesn't treat it specially, but visually you
do. makes a lot of sense.
and finally read code, it's not just a write-only experience. writing
a lot of code will help, but actually go and just read some code. you'll
see some good and some bad code, but spend some time every day checking
out other projects and their code. you'll be glad you did.
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