Re: Code comments as Documentation

[jsokohl -at- mac -dot- com]

> jsokohl -at- mac -dot- com wrote:
> > Trust issues, I'm sure.
> 
> Get a copy of the code, make the changes, do a diff, check your work, and
> compile the code.
Minor point, but our code's not compiled, it's interpreted (JavaScript &
XML & JSP). Too, a build to test this stuff requires other folks to stand
up the database...not a trivial thing and not a one--person event.
Ironically, because it's interpreted code (SQL/PL, too), ya'd think they'd
trust me even more. Despite 14 years in this biz, despite JS & HTML
knowledge & abilities, I'm "just a formatter to make things look pretty"
it seems.

> The longer you can forestall that event, the more forgiving they'll be when
> it happens.  (They break stuff, too.)

Perhaps, but they're _deVELopers_ and I'm not. I'm in a classic, archaic
programmers-as-priest circle of the Inferno.

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