我们有一个文件，在它的一半，一个程序员试图弄清楚混乱的意义，设法将所有无意义的代码移到底部，并留下了这样的评论:

I have no idea what this stuff does below here.

另一名程序员留下了一系列嵌套的命名空间，这些命名空间的作用类似于“方向手册”，这样您就可以钻取想法中的名称空间并选择您的操作。

我不止一次使用过这个方法，当我对一个数学公式做了一些不明显的简化时，我不想记录:

//this formula is right, work out the math yourself if you don't believe me

我喜欢GNU双utils中的一些注释。这个来自BFD som.c:

/* You'll never believe all this is necessary to handle relocations
   for function calls.  Having to compute and pack the argument
   relocation bits is the real nightmare.

   If you're interested in how this works, just forget it.  You really
   do not want to know about this braindamage.  */

这个也是:

/* Don't ask about these magic sequences.  I took them straight
   from gas-1.36 which took them from the a.out man page.  */

...

/* Keep track of exactly where we are within a particular
   space.  This is necessary as the braindamaged HPUX
   loader will create holes between subspaces *and*
   subspace alignments are *NOT* preserved.  What a crock.  */

另一个:

/* We will NOT put a fucking timestamp in the header here. Every
   time you put it back, I will come in and take it out again. ... */

从气体:

/* Yes this is ugly (storing the broken_word pointer
   in the symbol slot).  Still, this whole chunk of
   code is ugly, and I don't feel like doing anything
   about it.  Think of it as stubbornness in action.  */

<!-- THIS IS THE MAIN CONFIGURATION FILE FOR THE ENTIRE BLOODY DIRECTORY    -->
<!--    WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE WITHOUT TALKING TO ME FIRST  -->
<!--                                I'M SERIOUS                             -->
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在SJ CA拍卖业务的早期，我曾与一个名叫Rick Dorin的人合作过。他写编译器的时候，你必须整天拨弄卡片。他的错误信息之一是

错误太多……让更少的!

从Joomla !来源:

// fudge the group stuff