tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13265058.post113454110314508587..comments2023-10-28T23:33:56.980+11:00Comments on Sydney Oracle Lab: Campaign for the abolition of commented out codeSydOraclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08828771074492585943noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13265058.post-1135142180133663002005-12-21T16:16:00.000+11:002005-12-21T16:16:00.000+11:00Howard,Done my link. Now you just tell that slacke...Howard,<BR/>Done my link. Now you just tell that slacker Tom Kyte to update his link on AskTom - Other Resources :)<BR/>Everyone knows that if you have a link from AskTom, your traffic goes through the roof.SydOraclehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08828771074492585943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13265058.post-1135054802649623852005-12-20T16:00:00.000+11:002005-12-20T16:00:00.000+11:00I'm on a campaign, too: to get people to link to t...I'm on a campaign, too: to get people to link to the <B>new</B> Dizwell Forum instead of the old one!<BR/><BR/>:-)<BR/><BR/>The correct link should be to http://www.dizwell.com/forum. Cheers.Howard J. Rogershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05243555209210425488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13265058.post-1135032828956980652005-12-20T09:53:00.000+11:002005-12-20T09:53:00.000+11:00It's worse in C/C++ where the commented out code i...It's worse in C/C++ where the commented out code is in one of these:<BR/>#if 0<BR/>#endif<BR/><BR/>That won't even change colour in most IDEs.<BR/><BR/>However, there are some fancy IDE's that have little "minimise" buttons on the side to minimise comment blocks.<BR/><BR/>I have to agree that there is seldom any use for commented out code in final, production versions of code.Robert Vollmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08275044623767553681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13265058.post-1134933790836142122005-12-19T06:23:00.000+11:002005-12-19T06:23:00.000+11:00Yes, Vim does syntax highlighting. I had to tweak ...Yes, Vim does syntax highlighting. I had to tweak my psql.vim a bit to get it how I like it but it works. Redhat Linux and doubtless others now come with "vi" set up as an alias to Vim, so I think the days of black & white code are numbered.William Robertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06976436975493102341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13265058.post-1134736032593183002005-12-16T23:27:00.000+11:002005-12-16T23:27:00.000+11:00GaryWe write comment headers into all of code - in...Gary<BR/>We write comment headers into all of code - including view DDL ! this gives us who, what and when for all changes. It used to keep the ISO auditor happy that each code change that required a code fix could be tracked from problem to code change - then they asked that we also commented the lines that changed and why :(<BR/>But I agree, block commenting out of code is highly unreadable unless you use a IDE or editor that supports syntactic colour.Pete Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17524162121927585565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13265058.post-1134718868441846062005-12-16T18:41:00.000+11:002005-12-16T18:41:00.000+11:00+1 Seeing swathes of commented out code when we ha...+1 <BR/><BR/>Seeing swathes of commented out code when we have a perfectly good version control system irritates the heck out of me. I mercilessly eliminate such guff on sight.<BR/><BR/>The only thing worse than commented out code is the practice some people have of renaming obsolete files (e.g. Class.java to Class.java.old) because they "might" need to refer to them again (and presumably don't trust or want how to learn to use the version control system).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com