XPost: alt.folklore.computers, comp.lang.python   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:11:09 -0500, c186282 wrote:   
      
   >    Probably 50% of the text in my code - doesn't matter which lang - is   
   >    'comments'.   
      
   I looked at some of my code and it's pretty much comment free. There are a   
   couple of .c files with comments that I reused from another project that   
   have somebody's comments.   
      
   I had a tendency to clone similar projects and inherit some code that I   
   could tweak so the final executable did one thing well. We had a couple of   
   nightmares that originally did one thing well but for the next project the   
   programmer said 'That's close to what I need. A few configuration values   
   here and there and it will work.'  The next time around it got some more   
   configuration values to do something else.  I have a Swiss Army knife I   
   found; it's in the junk drawer.   
      
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