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>Sometimes I wish a programmer had just written comments on what he/she was trying to do and let me write the code! It would be simpler than debugging.
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> Jay
My first programming job was (too many) years ago using APL. In our documentation training sessions we were given an article entitled "The Concept of Throwaway Code." Unfortunately, I can't remember the author. The basic premise was that, in a properly modularized system, a program should document the inputs, outputs, and data transformations. If anything needs fixing or modification it will be cheaper/easier to rewrite the module from scratch rather than try to debug the problem.
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