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。

我只是在我自己的代码中遇到了这个问题。它在一个用于类别选择的洋红色管理模板中:

        /*
         * OK; before you read the following code know what I am trying to do.
         * I needed to get the list of child catagories from the root node so that
         * the root node didn't appear in the selection box. But for some stupid
         * fucking reason the stupid fucking DBA wont let me access the items using
         * indicies and I instead have to use their stupid fucking Iterator
         * implementation. So there.
         */
        $firstList = $this->getRootNode()->getChildren();
        foreach ($firstList as $node)
        {
            $nodes = $node->getChildren();
            break;          // wtf?
        }

我要把语言从我们的旗舰产品中移除;但我记得我非常沮丧。如果我没有留下评论，我会试着修改它，但会遇到和以前一样的问题。

//BELOW IS THE REAL CODE...JABRONI
        //
        // Yeah, but can you play the outtro to Bark At The Moon?
        //

        //|--------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
        //|--------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
        //|--17^16-16-16-17^16-17^16-16-16-17^16-17^16----16-|-19^16----16-19^16-19^16---16-19^16-19^16----17-|
        //|--------------------------------------------19----|-------17----------------17---------------17----|
        //|--------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------

// error codes
#define ERROR_SUCESS 0
#define ERROR_SUCCESS_IS_MISSPELLED 1

没有定义其他错误代码。

/*
    FIXME:  why the fuck did anyone ever think this kind of expensive iteration
                    was a good idea?

// If I from the future read this I'll back in time and kill myself.