November 14, 2001
@ 11:58 PM
Programmers that mostly don't comment
their code but leave my-dick-is-bigger-than-yours
comments when they do simply waste the time of other
competent programmers who are reading the code and
end up making themselves look like idiots. Not to
mention the fact that now people have to track them
down to find out exactly what the heck the code is
meant to be doing. I've lost count of the amount of
time I've wasted reading reams of code because some
twit failed to document his code because it was so
l337 or self eveident to him, yet once the
code is understood the poor quality of the code
boggles the mind.
So greenrd, take this from someone who read the
code, understood it and isn't a kung fu kernel
hacker....leaving "You are not meant to understand
this" as the primary comment in an important part of
teh Linux kernel code that handles memory allocation
is a stupid thing to do and is primarily an indicator
of the immaturity of the original author of the
code.