Re: comment style

[Richard B. Johnson]

FYI My company recently purchased a source-code license for a 3-D imaging
package. It costs about US$100,000. It could not be compiled on any
available cross-compiler because the Vendor/Producer used '//' for
comment delimiters.

We needed to hire a SW Engineer to support this package because it
contained about 1/4 million lines of code that had to be changed. This
'port' will take about a man-year when, in fact, we should not have
required any such changes at all.

Personally, I think:

// This looks much better than...
/* This....*/

However, we must be careful when we try to force our personal preferences
into something that has already been developed or is part of a continuing
development effort. 

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Richard B. Johnson
Project Engineer
Analogic Corporation
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