Tuesday, 29 May 2007

Can’t find the comment

I was just about to post an essay when one of my reviewers asked me:

“Hey, are you sure we did that? I can’t find it.”

“Sure,” I replied. “I put your project’s file name in our source code for reference. Let me pull it up.”

Tap tap tapity tap.

“Hm. Wait a minute. That’s not the right file after all.”

“Cause it sure seems strange that we would have done that, and I can’t find it there. You sure it wasn’t an older version?”

“No, I don’t think so. I only pulled the code out of VCS the other day. I’m sure that’s what I was looking at. In fact, I wouldn’t have noticed it except for the comment that explained what your code was doing which shocked me into reading it more closely. It was so unconventional, so amazing, so inspiring! I’m sure I saw it in here!”

Still looking.

It’s hard to credit someone for a good idea when you’re sure you got it from them but no one can find it anymore. And I’m an engineer. I know about writing things down. {sigh}

AfC

still-looking, posted by Andrew Cowie in software/free-java at 2007-05-29T03:00:22Z

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