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        <title>Well said</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=24232</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Can't argue with that. I apologise for my generalization (rant mode was switched on) and I admit I can be quite lax on my own commenting. What you've described is ideal; it is you explaining to the reader that which is not in the code itself. This and...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2004 09:35:08 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Mar 5, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Neil Ellis</jf:author>
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        <title>Well said</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=24232</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[This &quot;commenting style&quot; suggestions are just the same as when you write a book or a user's manual: put yourself on the user's place, and try to imagine what the end-user would think of what is being written. Do it all the time, and you will...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2004 07:03:24 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Mar 3, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Henrique Steckelberg</jf:author>
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        <title>Well said</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=24232</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Mike McConnell's book Code Complete has an excellent chapter on comments.  His argument is basically the same as yours:  comments should not explain what the code does, they should explain why it does it.  It's getting a bit out of date now but it's...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2004 04:14:31 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Mar 3, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>D S</jf:author>
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        <title>Well said</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=24232</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Wow, Neil, that's quite a tour de force.  Quite well said....]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2004 13:41:26 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Mar 2, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Mike Spille</jf:author>
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        <title>Well said</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=24232</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[You know that made me think, I really only have a handful of rules todo with coding and these are all linked to having to deal with day to day stuff, off the top of my head the list would include:...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2004 13:27:45 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Mar 2, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Neil Ellis</jf:author>
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        <title>Bjarne disagrees as well</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=24232</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Interstingly, Bjarne just said the following in an interview with Bill Venners:...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2004 13:10:07 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Mar 2, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Cedric Beust</jf:author>
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        <title>Have you ever liked an existing code base?</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=24232</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Have you ever liked an existing code base?...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2004 08:56:07 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Mar 2, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Jonathan Gibbons</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>5</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Are we missing the point?</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=24232</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[If I read Rick's article right, he's not talking about porting a legacy system.  He's talking about interfacing to a legacy system.  Sure, if you're rewriting an application then that's the perfect opportunity to re-examine the business rules and say,...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2004 04:02:52 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Mar 2, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>D S</jf:author>
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        <title>Are we missing the point?</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=24232</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[The bl ogI read didn't seem to have anything to do with programming, design, architecture, or anything like that. The conditions that the author has in italics are the result of ancient business rules that got carried forward (not too far forward with...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2004 01:10:14 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Mar 2, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Steven Marcus</jf:author>
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        <title>Gosh darn straight</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=24232</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[<div class="jive-quote"><div class="jive-quote">It sounds trite, but maybe what we need is more Fearful Leaders, and fewer &gt;&gt; Fearless ones. </div></div>...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2004 11:32:20 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Mar 1, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Andrew Clifford</jf:author>
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        <title>The real world is always more crufty</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=24232</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[I agree, the Programtic Programmer is about methods not a methodology. The same distinction between an idea and an ideology....]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2004 11:25:24 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Mar 1, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Neil Ellis</jf:author>
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        <title>Damn straight</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<div class="jive-quote">It sounds trite, but maybe what we need is more Fearful Leaders, and fewer Fearless ones.</div>...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2004 09:30:54 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Mar 1, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Mike Cornell</jf:author>
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        <title>A good example</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=24232</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[I submit Doug Lea as a noteworthy thought leader that fits your bill. His work with JSR 166, which has come after a years of contributing the KISS principle for Java concurrency among many other things, is helping to refine the JCP (<a...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2004 06:53:30 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Mar 1, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Edwin Babadaglian</jf:author>
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        <title>OldSKool</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=24232</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[<div class="jive-quote">In 'The Old Days' (TM) people learnt from reading other peoples source code, code to programs that was generally considered of a very high quality.</div>...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2004 06:24:28 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Mar 1, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Henrique Steckelberg</jf:author>
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        <title>OldSKool</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=24232</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[In 'The Old Days' (TM) people learnt from reading other peoples source code, code to programs that was generally considered of a very high quality....]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2004 05:30:45 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Mar 1, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Lyndon Samson</jf:author>
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