Electronics and computer science geek working in bioinformatics for the past 16 years. Programming since a teenager in 1981. Graduate work, publications in machine learning and evolutionary computing.
Location
Tulsa, OK
Education
M.S., Computer Science
Work
Research Associate Programmer at University of Tulsa
Consider that the comments could be for YOU, the developer, sometime down the road (years possibly!), not necessarily for anybody else. If for others, then yes, you are in team development territory and has to fit into the last stage of the software engineering calculus-- maintenance and extension. The software development lifecycle (SDLC) is for serious software, like aircraft avionics, high speed finance, controls systems and thus cannot cut corners on comments, documentation and training manuals/delivery. Writing web interfaces, storefronts and the like that get changed by the day are something different, rarely anything I would considering engineering. I still have code/custom hardware running from 1995 (Visual BASIC 3), and thank goodness it's commented!
When I was a child I wrote no comments, then I put away childish things and learned to write in coherent sentences.
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Consider that the comments could be for YOU, the developer, sometime down the road (years possibly!), not necessarily for anybody else. If for others, then yes, you are in team development territory and has to fit into the last stage of the software engineering calculus-- maintenance and extension. The software development lifecycle (SDLC) is for serious software, like aircraft avionics, high speed finance, controls systems and thus cannot cut corners on comments, documentation and training manuals/delivery. Writing web interfaces, storefronts and the like that get changed by the day are something different, rarely anything I would considering engineering. I still have code/custom hardware running from 1995 (Visual BASIC 3), and thank goodness it's commented!
When I was a child I wrote no comments, then I put away childish things and learned to write in coherent sentences.