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         It can't possibly generate comments worse than some I've seen
                                        
> The Commentator uses revolutionary real-time language processing to
> actually grok your code and add the necessary comments on the fly. No more
> doco to slow you down. Just install The Commentator and watch as your
> coding elegance is eloquently decorated with insightful, nuanced commentary
> … as you type. What's more, The Commentator's powerful Personality Controls
> allow you to tweak it's output so completely that it's as if The
> Commentator is speaking for you. In your voice. Explaining to those that
> need it, so that you can get on and get busy.
> 

“the commentator // time commenting could be time coding [1]”

The various axes one can tweak include FUD (Fear, Uncertainy, Doubt) (from
the EFF (Electronic Freedom Foundation) [2] to Microsoft [3]), humor (from
Dijkstra [4] to Ballmer [5]) and bitterness (from “green” to “Death March
[6]”), to name a few, with options to use profanity, drug references and
religion references.

Sounds neat. I could definitely use this to comment some of the PHP [7] code
I have to deal with.

[1] http://www.cenqua.com/commentator/
[2] http://www.eff.org/
[3] http://www.microsoft.com/
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_Dijkstra
[5] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_march_(software_development)
[7] http://www.tnx.nl/php

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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