HACKER Q&A
📣 fulfanar

Why programmers don't write well?


The vast majority of comments in codebases are all lowercase without punctuation like the dot at the end. Why? I can imagine that in the times of PDP-11 the keyboard was terrible but nowadays this is hardly an issue.


  👤 h2odragon Accepted Answer ✓
expect that those comments are written by people who can be quite literate and grammatically proper when they wish to be. more about context; in code the punctuation has different meaning and the language is accessory to that already.

alternately, terse comments on top of GnarlyNaming.Conventions.andVerboseclass.HeirArchies.plus_GoofyCapitalizations and so forth might just indicate that programming causes brain damage, specifically to the language centers.