<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8fca1097-3dda-453b-b869-44b048718835/83D03DAE-1C28-4365-8114-2230103141A4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.techworld.com.au/blog/entrenched/2008/06/commenting_out_code_is_evil" href="http://www.techworld.com.au/blog/entrenched/2008/06/commenting_out_code_is_evil" style="font-size: 11px;">www.techworld.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techworld.com.au/blog/entrenched/2008/06/commenting_out_code_is_evil"><H1 id="page-title" class="title">Commenting out code is evil</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techworld.com.au/blog/entrenched/2008/06/commenting_out_code_is_evil"><P>If you are a software developer you probably use some kind of <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control">version control system</A> like <A href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">subversion</A>, <A href="http://git.or.cz/">git</A>, or maybe <A href="http://bazaar-vcs.org/">Bazaar</A>, everyday at work. And if you aren't you should be.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techworld.com.au/blog/entrenched/2008/06/commenting_out_code_is_evil"><P>When using version control there are some bad habits that need to be broken to get the most from it. One bad habit that really needs to be broken is the habit of commenting out dead code instead of deleting it.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techworld.com.au/blog/entrenched/2008/06/commenting_out_code_is_evil"><P>It always starts the same way. You have to modify an existing piece of code, so you quickly comment out the old code and start adding your new code. Having the old code is handy - it gives you a reference for the new code you're writing and if something goes wrong you just uncomment it and you're back where you started. Easy.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/83D03DAE-1C28-4365-8114-2230103141A4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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