Through various experiences, I have come to a modest conclusion aboutdesigning languages:

Every language, be it ever so tiny, needs to have a way ofincluding comments.

And I do mean every language. Even things that are barely programminglanguages, like configuration files and dinky templating systems , need comments. Sometimes I think that thesetiny languages especially need comments; because they are so small andconstrained, the tricks you do are likely to be even more obscure andhard to follow.

Yes, this means that I

Havoc Pennington :

The obvious reply is that most people don't have commit access. But ifsomeone's doing any kind of significant work, I think they should. Andfor my projects I've essentially always given out access as soon assomeone did any kind of largish patch or frequency of patches.

My reply to Havoc is 'what about before then?'

The advantage of distributed version control systems is that theyempower people to use version control right from the very start ofworking on your program,