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Imagine That...

Imagine That... 04/19/2004 12:18 AM

Imagine writing a technical manual using plain text. No "bolds", "italics" or "underline". No diagrams nor illustrations. No changes of fonts nor colors. And imagine having to write your manual using a text editor -- such as vi -- without any of the modern convenience one has come to expect out of Microsoft Word.
That is the sad state of affair of comments inside source code.




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