> What I like about the coding style is the use of COMMENTS!!!  
> Makes the code very readable to me. I've recently been 
> struggling to port some code written for Windoze to C18. 
> There's maybe 3 or 4 lines of comments per page, a 1 line 
> comment at the top of a block of code with no comments on the 
> lines of code. After several days of messing with it, I 
> finally said, "I think this is what it's supposed to do" and 
> wrote about 20 lines of commented C to replace the 7 pages of 
> stuff. Seems to work. Also, years ago, I taught a class in 
> PDP-8 assembly language programming (using Teletypes and 
> punched tape!). I had students get their code working without 
> comments, then add comments for my benefit (and for their 
> grade's benefit). Unfortunately, by the time they added the 
> comments, they forgot how the code worked, so the comments 
> did not describe what the code was doing...
> 
> So, THANKS FOR COMMENTING YOUR CODE!

I'll echo that. But I must say that I expected to find that I was reading a
reply from Olin...

...I was rather surprised when my eyes next came to:
> 
> Harold
> 


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