Use of first person in a book

[Jeremie Pelletier]

Lutger wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 
>> So I thought I'd ask a candid question in here. How do you feel about
>> moderate use of the first person in a technical book? Do you find it
>> comfortable, neutral, or cringeworthy?
>>
>>
>> Andrei
> 
> Comfortable, as long as you're not writing a Head First book. Avoiding first 
> person too much sometimes leads to awkward and dull texts. The programming 
> library has enough of these.

Yeah I also got into the habit of writing neutral comments in my code, I 
used to use the first person a lot and a joke here and there, sometimes 
cursing at microsoft for backward api designs.

At what point do we lose it and become serious in code comments?