Before Java 5, comments were Java’s only flexible mechanism ... annotation type that you might use to annotate thread-safe code. After declaring this annotation type, you would prefix the ...

Automatic Code Comment generation plays a good role in the software development life cycle with software maintenance. But in reality, most programmers pay no attention to source code comments; they ...

Abstract: Code comments are a key software component containing information about the underlying implementation. Several studies have shown that code comments enhance the readability of the code.

Furthermore, the extent to which developers follow these guidelines while writing code comments is unknown.We analyze various style guidelines in Java and Python and uncover that the majority of them ...

Google’s “Java guru” Joshua Bloch also spoke, getting into the nitty gritty of Java code and APIs, and admitting via previously-taped deposition testimony that it was likely that some of the ...