Brilliant or insane code?

Re:Brilliant or insane code? by andrewcooke on Sunday September 01, 2013 @10:35AM (#6310512)

it depends on the kind of code you write. i guess if you're writing web server stuff, documenting this makes sense. but in maths-related code, it's pretty standard. you use something very similar to transpose matrices, for example.

(and the original article is dealing with coords in graphics, which is "maths-related code" in my book, but perhaps not in everyone's)

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Re:Brilliant or insane code? by loarake on Sunday September 01, 2013 @12:05PM (#6310888)

The original source is taken from a medical image DICOM viewer. In my limited experience as a medical physics student, the people working with these tools would really benefit from a comment explaining the code. They are most definitely not coders, most of them having barely done anything more than write a few matlab scripts.

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Re:Brilliant or insane code? by duaneb on Monday September 02, 2013 @03:30AM (#6313900)

This is hardly a typical environment. All code would be challenging, even commented code. Excessive commenting would be necessary: write the program again in English.

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