Software Code Comment

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A Software Code Comment is a comment in software code items.



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2019a

  1. Source code can be divided into program code (which consists of machine-translatable instructions); and comments (which include human-readable notes and other kinds of annotations in support of the program code).
  2. For purposes of this article, programming language comments are treated as indistinct from comments that appear in markup languages, configuration files and other similar contexts. Moreover, markup language is often closely integrated with programming language code, especially in the context of code generation. See e.g., ,

2019b

2006

1985

  • (Knuth, 1985) ⇒ Donald Knuth. (1985). “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs."
    • QUOTE: ... Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. ...