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I have had a teacher that said you needed to comment every single line because that's how code is written in the real world.

I told him he was wrong and argued with him on more than one occasion. In the end, I just did it his way because there wasn't a good alternative.

> In the end, I just did it his way because there wasn't a good alternative.

Ironically, that is quite a bit like the real world.

Sounds like a job for a perl(or whatever) script.

Might be fun to do some light ad hoc parsing.

Also, with that rule, I can't resist

    // this line left intentionally blank.

Ahem:

    // this line left intentionally non-blank.