Hmm .. put me down for another downvote (not on your node) on the line of hashes. Although, I admit to being hypocritical on that, since ever source file I check into version control has something like
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
##********************************************************
## Copyright (c) 2004, 2005 That Company
## Copyright (c) 2006, 2007 This Company
##********************************************************
## $Id: SomeProgram,v 1.24 2007-08-23 13:37:05-04 talexb Exp $
at the top of each file. That's just what the company standard is -- but that's the only place I have lines of hashes. It's too noisy, but, as has been mentioned, it's a personal taste thing.
At least it wasn't a 'flower box' comment -- they were stylish in the late 70's, and not since then. Thank heavens -- they were truly ugly, and a pain to maintain.
Alex / talexb / Toronto
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