This morning I briefly glanced through code written a couple of days ago: basically the code took care of spitting out data via late binding into Excel. I had no idea what I was thinking but it surely looks neat.
Then the bell tolls and you start to become aware that commenting the code is pretty important too. I always ‘log’ changes in a seperate text file, but those entries are merely short, explaining what was added or what has been removed. I wonder: if I now have a hard time to exactly comprehend what the code does, how would someone else feel? Hopefully they get struck by the beauty of programming that is boolean magic.
Good news re: the Man vs. Computer battle: Kasparov and the Amazing Three Dee (not one, not two, but three tables and a microphone!!) chess computer ended their serie with a tie. Yay. Says Kasparov in an utterly silly attempt to be smart:
“Machines are getting better, but we humans are also learning.”
We. Humans. Learning?