Many years ago (about 1994) I was working on a Oracle PRO*C application for a large multi-national software company that you will have heard of. The app I was working on was a massive Oracle application and they had a utility that ran overnight tidying up data and doing all sorts of aggregate calculations. Every time anything needed doing as a batch job, it got shoved into this utility and as you can imagine it became an absolute monstrosity. It was also notable for the tiny number of comments that it had for such a massive program.

它为数不多的评论之一仍然是我所见过的对纯粹的WTF的最好的评论……我试图在一个函数中找到一个bug，它有数百行长，中间是函数中唯一的注释:

/* I did this the other way */

直到今天，这仍然是我所见过的最好的评论。

不是注释，而是属性

[ThereBeDragons]

还有一个是我在IHttpHandler的实现中看到的

//What is this?
public bool IsReusable
{
    get{return false;}
}

当我注释掉我认为不再有用的代码块，但我可能是错的(因此没有删除它们)，我有时会在它们之前

// Wilted celery?

这个想法就像芹菜一样枯萎了，但你还是把它放回冰箱里。我只知道十年后会有人看到这些评论，说什么鬼?

//Woulda
if(x) {}
//Shoulda
else if(y) {}
//Coulda
else {}

高斯林的Emacs源代码中的ascii艺术头骨和交叉骨骼(这里很难重现)(警告说他编写的超热屏幕管理包不容易理解)。

// Added because boss changed his mind : 20020111,20020501,20020820, ...
// Commented out because boss changed his mind : 20020201,20020614,20020908, ...

在ETL脚本之间的主要黑客RPG数据库和SQL Server一个。我大概有10到20次这样的评论……