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Subject: Re: Help Elucidating Fruit 2.1 Source Code

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:06:33 11/17/05

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On November 17, 2005 at 08:38:27, Michael Neish wrote:

>On November 17, 2005 at 08:14:32, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>I read that it is using hash in a different way.
>>
>>I think that it also has better evaluation than other free source code programs
>>and of course history pruning gives it a significant advantage.
>>
>
>Thanks.  Now my time away from CCC is starting to show.  I have no idea what
>history pruning is.  Could you give me a link to an explanation (haven't been
>able to find one doing a quick WWW search), or would you mind explaining it
>briefly?  Thanks again for your time.
>
>I like the idea of commenting programs.  Although personally I doubt I could
>help, I think people might prefer just adding comments withing the files
>containing the source code, rather than creating separate text files.  There
>probably isn't much difference, but the latter may be perceived as more work,
>and put off some people.  Just my opinion.
>
>Regards,
>
>Mike.

You can read the following link

http://wbforum.volker-pittlik.name/viewtopic.php?t=3795

The reason that I suggested to do it in different files is that some people
claimed that it is harder to read a program when there are many comments inside
of it.

Tord said in the link that I gave
"Verbose and overcommented code (e.g. Crafty) is tedious to read. Like so much
else, this is of course largely a matter of taste"

Uri



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