Is there any code in Firefox (as of 2020) that comes from Netscape Navigator?

Re:Is there any code in Firefox (as of 2020) that comes from... by rozab on Saturday March 28, 2020 @11:14AM (#22711602)

This was a good read. Question from a naive programmer: the writer mentions 'cute comments' in the codebase, like

    // Assertion: Now we know the name of the current page

Is this style frowned upon? I've always thought it's a very clear way of communicating. There's a reason many maths papers are written like this. Do my co-workers think my comments are silly? :(

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Re:Is there any code in Firefox (as of 2020) that comes from... by qznc on Sunday March 29, 2020 @02:48AM (#22716925)

Comments is a mostly subjective topic. In this case, I have two arguments against the comment.

First, it just says what the three simple lines of code above did. Comments should rather focus on the "why" to provide information which the code cannot give.

Second, assertions should be code (or somehow machine readable).

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