The older I get, the more disciplined I become at commenting. I cannot tell you how many times I have cursed my younger self for not doing more of that when he wrote the original code!

My younger self was a pretty good programmer but alas he was lazy and stupid. :)

Paul H. Tarver

-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Gene Wirchenko Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2019 11:18 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Figured out how I was getting around that Page.Init "bug" not working as expected in my subclass

At 08:43 2019-07-10, "MB Software Solutions, LLC" mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:

2 things: 1. thankfully I had source code backups 2. I'm very glad I documented (commented) it well with my datestamp too. I always code to help me later down the road when I lose my mind.

I try to comment appropriately, but sometimes, I miss putting down what ends up being a critically missing detail years later. If my code were less reliable, then maybe, I would have looked at it sooner and would be more familiar with it for when I finally have to change it.

The "Set it and forget it." mentality does have the problem of "forget it".

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Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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