Comments on: Microsoft Eliminates Comments From VB2008 http://blog.timaki.com/2007/09/14/microsoft-eliminates-comments-from-vb2008/ Web Thoughts of Tim Patrick Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:07:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Microsoft Eliminates Comments From VB2008 « Tim’s Blog http://blog.timaki.com/2007/09/14/microsoft-eliminates-comments-from-vb2008/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Microsoft Eliminates Comments From VB2008 « Tim’s Blog Fri, 22 May 2009 01:19:33 +0000 http://timaki.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/microsoft-eliminates-comments-from-vb2008/#comment-14 [...] http://blog.timaki.com/2007/09/14/microsoft-eliminates-comments-from-vb2008/ [...] [...] http://blog.timaki.com/2007/09/14/microsoft-eliminates-comments-from-vb2008/ [...]

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]]> By: Tim Patrick http://blog.timaki.com/2007/09/14/microsoft-eliminates-comments-from-vb2008/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Tim Patrick Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:27:31 +0000 http://timaki.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/microsoft-eliminates-comments-from-vb2008/#comment-10 Yes, it's a joke, but humor must have a grain of truth in it to be truly funny. Still, if I have to explain that it's funny, perhaps it's not. I first wrote about the importance of comments almost a decade ago. You wouldn't believe the email I got from programmers telling me what a waste of time comments were. And my years as a consultant, slogging through poor-quality legacy code, proved to me that very few developers take the time to comment, or to comment well. So when I wrote that blog, I just took programmers to the next logical step. Of course Microsoft isn't removing comments from Visual Basic, but many programmers act as if they had. Yes, it’s a joke, but humor must have a grain of truth in it to be truly funny. Still, if I have to explain that it’s funny, perhaps it’s not.

I first wrote about the importance of comments almost a decade ago. You wouldn’t believe the email I got from programmers telling me what a waste of time comments were. And my years as a consultant, slogging through poor-quality legacy code, proved to me that very few developers take the time to comment, or to comment well. So when I wrote that blog, I just took programmers to the next logical step. Of course Microsoft isn’t removing comments from Visual Basic, but many programmers act as if they had.

]]> By: Robert Richter http://blog.timaki.com/2007/09/14/microsoft-eliminates-comments-from-vb2008/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Robert Richter Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:44:18 +0000 http://timaki.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/microsoft-eliminates-comments-from-vb2008/#comment-11 Why was this posted on Sept. 14, 2007 instead of April 1? Why was this posted on Sept. 14, 2007 instead of April 1?

]]> By: John A. http://blog.timaki.com/2007/09/14/microsoft-eliminates-comments-from-vb2008/comment-page-1/#comment-9 John A. Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:35:53 +0000 http://timaki.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/microsoft-eliminates-comments-from-vb2008/#comment-9 MS has really divorced themselves from reality. I use comments all the time, and I don't think I've ever seen well-written code that didn't. Anyone with any sense uses comments. Maybe if the folks inside MS did their software wouldn't be so dang buggy. I found this post by do a web search for VB2008 changes, to see if there was going to be anything in it worthwhile. It doesn't matter now. Nothing is worth submitting to such a stupid useless change. MS has really divorced themselves from reality. I use comments all the time, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen well-written code that didn’t. Anyone with any sense uses comments. Maybe if the folks inside MS did their software wouldn’t be so dang buggy.

I found this post by do a web search for VB2008 changes, to see if there was going to be anything in it worthwhile. It doesn’t matter now. Nothing is worth submitting to such a stupid useless change.

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