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Re:Programming Languages Are Simply Not Powerful Enough by limmeau on Friday March 01, 2013 @02:55AM (#5303337)
"and here is the spec for our in-house framework".

"and here is the 1M LOC codebase, which was carefully crafted to avoid using any of the complicated frameworks; all you gotta know is the C standard library".

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Re:Programming Languages Are Simply Not Powerful Enough by anthonyb on Friday March 01, 2013 @05:06AM (#5303599)
Spec? For an in-house framework? Luxury!
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Re:Programming Languages Are Simply Not Powerful Enough by limmeau on Friday March 01, 2013 @05:37AM (#5303666)
Did I say Spec? I meant the doxygen output of hundreds of classes with sparse one-line doccumments.

Plus one outdated sequence diagram.

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Re:Programming Languages Are Simply Not Powerful Enough by masklinn on Friday March 01, 2013 @07:02AM (#5303838)
One-line comment? What are you, a writer-librarian?
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Re:Programming Languages Are Simply Not Powerful Enough by limmeau on Friday March 01, 2013 @07:57AM (#5303989)
It can be learned. Observe:

       //! \brief Transport diagnostic wrapper
       class TransportDiagnosticWrapper {
(Actually, meaningful one-line comments are a lyric discipline of their own, related to haikus.)
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Re:Programming Languages Are Simply Not Powerful Enough by npsimons on Friday March 01, 2013 @09:05AM (#5304247)
You joke, but a tool I have seen lauded for being really "smart" at automatically generating doxygen comments does exactly that. I guess it at least saves the time of a human doing it by hand . . .
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