Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl> writes:
> You can always supply metadata in comments.
It’s hard for me to take that answer seriously at face value. You can also include a Pascal version of a program in the comments in a C program. It has probaby been done.
It is vastly more useful if there is a standard way to include useful metadata like “what is this” and “what version is this”. Arguing that it’s unnecessary or not useful because it can be done in a comment isn’t the least persuasive.
Be seeing you,
norm
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Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica
Received on Tuesday, 5 March 2024 17:34:38 UTC