Commenting symbol and black holes

April 30th, 2008, 12:03 pm admin Software

Just was browsing O’Reilly Ruby Programming Language where noticed the first thing to be introduced in this book is commenting! Reading this I thought that probably because commenting symbols are the black holes of a software and quite important. We usually consider them as non-existing parts of a running software but as we usually do not consider black holes as non-existing ones , the same should be considered for commenting symbols. They have one dimension, no meaning and occupy zero space and of course nothing even the light ray can escape from their field of gravity.