August 2010 Archives

Commenting on comments

This statement is on my Ohloh page for ClamTk:

"Across all Perl projects on Ohloh, 28% of all source code lines are comments. For ClamTk, this figure is only 14%.

This lack of comments puts ClamTk among the lowest one-third of all Perl projects on Ohloh."

Now when I first saw that, the figure was probably 8%. Ohloh has since shamed me into obsessively adding more. I'm somewhat embarrased about the low number of comments - especially after developing this for 6+ years - but the 28% figure stuns me. In a g…

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user-pic I'm an amateur Perl geek and the author of ClamTk, a GUI written in gtk2-perl.