消毒:

//Forward declarations:

class X {}; // TODO: Remove {}  ! When we get X defined....

// BEGIN HACK
...
// END HACK: I feel dirty.

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。

struct core_unlocker
{
    core_unlocker(lock)
    {
        m_lock = lock
        unlock(lock)  //Abandon All Locks, Ye Who Enter Core!
    }
    ~core_unlocker()
    {
        lock(m_lock)
    }  
    private:
    Corelock m_lock;
}

对于我编写的memcache包装器/处理程序接口模式类，我实现了以下方法。

/**
*  Do not use, ever - left in place for testing purposes
*/
function  I_David_WillHuntYouDownAndHurtYou_Badly_IfIFindThisUsedAnyWhereInTheAppLibrary(){
...
}

这基本上是一个超级核函数，它告诉所有单独的memcache服务完全刷新自己，并从我用于键的单个名称空间计数器(例如{_counter_key value}_)重新开始。{_counter_key value})

Another minor novella I wrote was for an automated downloader for a data vendor, detailing how much I hated this vendor and went to great lengths of postulating that their infrastructure's batch system was run by a gerbil, running on a wheel and after so many revolutions of the wheel the next queued task would be started. It was written over the course of 6 months of adding additional exception handling, estoric checks like ( if we got 768 Bytes of \s characters, that means the query to their DB timed out and the spaces are the result of empty failure print statements.

//Code sanitized to protect the foolish. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.Reflection; using System.Web.UI; namespace Mobile.Web.Control { /// <summary> /// Class used to work around Richard being a fucking idiot /// </summary> /// <remarks> /// The point of this is to work around his poor design so that paging will /// work on a mobile control. The main problem is the BindCompany() method, /// which he hoped would be able to do everything. I hope he dies. /// </remarks> public abstract class RichardIsAFuckingIdiotControl : MobileBaseControl, ICompanyProfileControl { protected abstract Pager Pager { get; } public void BindCompany(int companyId) { } public RichardIsAFuckingIdiotControl() { MakeSureNobodyAccidentallyGetsBittenByRichardsStupidity(); } private void MakeSureNobodyAccidentallyGetsBittenByRichardsStupidity() { // Make sure nobody is actually using that fucking bindcompany method MethodInfo m = this.GetType().GetMethod("BindCompany", BindingFlags.DeclaredOnly | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic); if (m != null) { throw new RichardIsAFuckingIdiotException("No!! Don't use the fucking BindCompany method!!!"); } // P.S. this method is a joke ... the rest of the class is fucking serious } /// <summary> /// This returns true if this control is supposed to be doing anything /// at all for this request. Richard thought it was a good idea to load /// the entire website during every request and have things turn themselves /// off. He also thought bandanas and aviator sunglasses were "fuckin' /// gnarly, dude." /// </summary> protected bool IsThisTheRightPageImNotSureBecauseRichardIsDumb() { return Request.QueryString["Section"] == this.MenuItemKey; } protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e) { if (IsThisTheRightPageImNotSureBecauseRichardIsDumb()) { Page.LoadComplete += new EventHandler(Page_LoadComplete); Pager.RowCount = GetRowCountBecauseRichardIsDumb(); } base.OnLoad(e); } protected abstract int GetRowCountBecauseRichardIsDumb(); protected abstract void BindDataBecauseRichardIsDumb(); void Page_LoadComplete(object sender, EventArgs e) { BindDataBecauseRichardIsDumb(); } // the rest of his reduh-ndant interface members public abstract string MenuItemName { get; set; } public abstract string MenuItemKey { get; set; } public abstract bool IsCapable(CapabilityCheck checker, int companyId); public abstract bool ShowInMenu { get; } public virtual Control CreateHeaderControl() { return null; } } }

更新:代码的原作者已经暴露了自己，所以我必须在适当的地方给予赞扬。Dan McKinley在我入职后不久就离开了我所在的公司，他讲述了更多关于代码的内容，解释了一些背景知识和“Richard”所写的一些“WTF”。