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

// This procedure is really good for your dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.

你们中有些人，由于某种特殊的原因，不知道DPC，当你深入学习新东西时，你大脑的这一部分会亮起来。

catch (Domain.ConcurrencyException)
{
    // somebody changed it between the time we loaded it and now.
    // weird, huh?
}

几年前，我在一个没有单元测试可言的大型代码库中工作。

代码中隐藏了一个执行一些日历计算的方法。它有点坏了，由于一些不幸的情况，不得不以一种非常笨拙的方式处理夏令时。

我们不得不修了几次，每一次，我们都会在几个月后发现一些东西坏了。

在花了一整天的时间修复和分析之后，我把代码放到了源代码控制中，并附上了这样的评论:

// this code was written after a version trying to do {this} failed because of {reason},
// previously we were doing {this} which failed because of {reason}. This is 
// now written {this} way so that {lots of reasons here}. If you want to touch
// this code, please make sure that it produces the right answers when tested with:
//
// {some sort of unit test}

最终，我的团队被外包了。有时我想知道这段代码发生了什么:)

在头文件的顶部:

/* Project : XYZ (Please somebody shoot me!)
 *
 * File : $Id: defs.h,v 1.1 $
 *
 * Purpose : Create havoc rather than peace among many nations
 *
 * History : Back-ported changes that were not in CVS.  Please somebody,
 *  shoot us and put us all out of our misery.
 */

“XYZ项目”(已改名)是一个长达七年的折磨。最后这句话是由一个从头到尾都参与其中的坚定的灵魂写的。

我发现了这个:

I'm not sure what I did