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Posted Mar 19, 2022 16:11 UTC (Sat) by kschendel (subscriber, #20465)In reply to: Documentation by tialaramex
Parent article: Donenfeld: Random number generator enhancements for Linux 5.17 and 5.18
> Comments however are the last resort, because we're writing code which inherently _has_ meaning.
Sorry, that's one of the Big Lies of programming. It didn't work with COBOL, it doesn't work with C, and it certainly won't work even with the Great New Pie-in-the-Sky language. I've heard variations on this statement for over 45 years and it's never been true. As long as we have computers that operate step by step rather than intuiting what we mean, we'll need comments in and on the code.