Brude Eckel is getting a lot of criticism about embedding tests in comments. I'm curious about this for two reasons: How Bruce responds to this criticism, some of which has been harsh. He has taught in form of another, thousands of C++ and Java programmers over the years, and is highly regarded as a result. Whether it actually works. There's a vaguely analogous discussion going on in the Groovy community that intermixing languages in code via pluggable parsers would be a good, "enabling", thing. * Either of these approaches look like things I want to steer clear of. JUnit in comments comes across as unreadable gorp one hundred classes later. Inlined languages comes across as a display of parsing and programming skill without stopping to think whether the end result is indeed enabling - there's a difference between enabling people and encouraging them to do stupid things (perhaps best understood by those who teach or have kids). But then again, what do I know? I haven't actually tried them. Maybe they work - isn't that the real test? [bob marley: easy shanking ]...
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