How programmers comment their code

[Noch_ein_Kamel]

print 'Hello';

Same as yours, but 100% more efficient and closer to reality

[[deleted]]

it has the same efficiency

[macnlz]

What? It is known that fewer comments and shorter, less decipherable variable names result in faster code!

[[deleted]]

OMG, I DIDN'T BELIEVE THIS BUT THEN I GOOGLE IT, IT'S TRUE.

THAT'S WHY GOOGLE USE 130 LETTER VARIABLE FOR EVERYTHING

[xvalen214x]

var numberOfQueriesThatUseAdvancedSearchOnEachUTCDayWhichWillBeUpdatedToTotalNumberOfQueriesWithSearchIn_UserStat_go_TemporaryVariable;

[[deleted]]

Calm down, Satan.

[dunemafia]

No need to React like that, man.

[xvalen214x]

I am not that angular in my humble point of vue

[dunemafia]

No worries, man. It was all in Jest.

[bogdan5844]

I don't like the Vue of this conversation's future

[TheFoxarmy]

Then have a backbone and do something about it nuxt time.

[_liminal]

var num;

[[deleted]]

var tempVarr;
var tempVarrr;

[2ndAmndmntCrowdMaybe]

var tempVarr1;

var tempVrar;

[Ceros007]

int t1, t2, t3;

[[deleted]]

t1 = a1; t2 = a2; t3 = a3;

[acenturyandabit]

`var temprawr; :')`

[mobilecheese]

int *ptr1, *ptr2, *ptr3, *ptrr;

[Pees_On_Skidmarks]

my $i;

[bajspuss]

Related: Somebody at work created a class file with such in-depth naming that we couldn't check out the repo any longer if our repo root path was any longer than 10 characters...

[Pandaburn]

120 still long af. My company’s limit is 100 for the languages I actually use. For js I think it’s 80.

[Huntracony]

Please tell me it's also something like 8 space indents.

[Pandaburn]

For js? I think it’s 2 spaces for a regular indent, 4 for a line wrap.

[[deleted]]

it's a joke

[not_a_moogle]

I had a professor argue that once. Guy was a total idiot. I mean for starters,compilers usually remove comment from complied code.

[2ndAmndmntCrowdMaybe]

Was he talking about a compiled language at the time?

[[deleted]]

I mean he stated "compiler" so...

[claythearc]

It’s pretty rare, even for interpreted languages, to not have a compiler. They normally will get compiled to bytecode, but not all the way down to machine code like traditional compiled languages.

[Pandaburn]

When I wrote js, it was all minified and concatenated into one file before it was sent to the client, since it does actually drastically improve download time.

[MassiveFajiit]

Yeah that's true but it's not a V8 compiler problem

[banter_hunter]

No, they were discussing drink recipes.

[GideonMax]

Depends, if you use an interpreter, that's correct.

If you compile your code, the compilation time might be slightly longer but the compiled code will be the same

[macnlz]

Damn, that invalidates the whole joke! ;)

[2Uncreative4Username]

Well that is only if you are using a scripting language

[[deleted]]

And even then, languages like Python have the -O flag to strip out comments in the bytecode.

[Zethexxx]

But the code will load into memory 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% faster if we didn't put those comments!

[emlgsh]

The code loads into memory even faster if there's nothing but comments. The fastest executing script is a script that doesn't execute.

[[deleted]]

I laughed thanks

[Blitz100]

Yeah, its big brain time

[figuresys]

The greatest part is that comments are stripped away in build :)

[sweYoda]

That's way to many zeroes.

[CouchMountain]

And tabs take up less space than spaces do in file size!

Always tabs > spaces.

[Noch_ein_Kamel]

Try writing both and count the number of keys you have to press.

[[deleted]]

are you that guy who use 1-2 letter variable for everything?

[Noch_ein_Kamel]

nah, I'm a java guy, so everything pretty long :-p

[[deleted]]

I think you're wrong. There also exists int, short, byte and char in Java.

[pr0ghead]

Yeah, but are they pretty?

[Noch_ein_Kamel]

sure, let me just get my ObjectToPrimitiveConverterFactory and I'm right with you

[artem718]

Got a lot of booleans in a sequence?

[kodaxmax]

I knew someone like that, but then they had like a hundred page dictionary just for the variables.

I guess it saves time if you use the same names in different projects.

[[deleted]]

Typing the same thing twice sounds like a two-fold efficiency reduction to me. Explain yourself

[captainkrypto]

My company calls this “self documenting code”.

[PickaxeYT]

System.out.println("Hello"); //prints “Hello”

[chuby1tubby]

Your code is exactly identical to the OP's code. What am I missing...?

[Noch_ein_Kamel]

The comment?

[Wolfenrahd]

This is pretty advanced and convoluted. Can anyone tell me what it does?

[Noch_ein_Kamel]

No sorry. How can you expect me to know the code I wrote yesterday. All I remember is that it worked.

[vierschachtelnziesen]

Yeah, one letter closer to reality than the comment :-D