Re:The Five Levels of Logging
by exabrial on Saturday September 15, 2018 @09:08AM
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Talking about logging got me a rejection at Google. The very kind 22 year old interviewing me asked what my thoughts on commenting code was and I said most every time it's used as an excuse to show off a piece of overly clever code, so normally I discourage it in favor of logging, as they are code comments you can use in production. I realize now that was my first graybeard moment.
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Re:The Five Levels of Logging
by paulddraper on Sunday September 16, 2018 @02:50PM
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Without diving too far down the comment rabbit hole (complex but efficient algorithms, external references, legal retirements, backwards compatibilty), that's not true though.
A comment is attached to code. A log is attached to an event.
Conflating those will either give you very bad logs or very bad comments.