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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.)
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 . . .