-- Comment this later

这是一个4000多行的PL/SQL过程的第2行。唯一的评论。手术已经进行了4年了，后来还是没来…

我曾经想出了一个我认为很优雅的解决方案来解决一个特别棘手的问题，现在回想起来，这有点令人费解，并且大量使用了宏编程。多年以后，我从一个维护程序员那里发现了这条评论

/*
    Description: The Total Perspective Vortex derives its picture of the
                 whole Universe  on the principle of extrapolated matter
                 analyses.

                 To  explain  -  since every piece of matter in the Universe
                 is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in
                 the  Universe,  it  is  in  theory possible to extrapolate
                 the whole of creation - every sun, every planet, their
                 orbits, their composition and their economic and social
                 history from, say, one small Macro.

                 The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so
                 basically in order to annoy the IT department.

                 Steve Weet - for that was his name - was a dreamer, a
                 thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as some would have
                 it, a slacker.

                 And they would nag him incessantly about the utterly
                 inordinate amount of time he spent staring out into space,
                 or mulling over the mechanics of Chelsea FC, or doing
                 spectrographic analyses of macros.

                 "Have  some  sense  of  proportion!"  they would say,
                 sometimes as often as thirty-eight times in a single day.

                 And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex - just to show
                 them.

                 And into one end he plugged the whole of reality as
                 extrapolated  from one  macro, and into the other
                 end he plugged the IT department: so that when he turned it
                 on they saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation 
                 and theirselves in relation to it.

                 To  Steve Weet's horror, the shock completely annihilated '
                 their brains; but to his satisfaction he realized that he
                 had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a
                 Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford
                 to have is a sense of proportion.

*/

写得很好的Lisp是最容易阅读的语言之一，我喜欢它。但是写得不好的Lisp可能是比糟糕的Java更糟糕的噩梦，等等。

在这里，我们需要创建一个“组文件”，如果一个原始文件有3个变体，后缀为a, b和c。我一直试图追踪一个奇怪的错误，我们得到了不必要的组文件……

  (let ((varianta (format nil "~aa" problem))
        (variantb (format nil "~ab" problem))
        (variantc (format nil "~ac" problem)))
    ;;if the A and B variants exist, create a group file
    ;;(why not just check for a? I don't know, this just feels right)
    (when (and (probe-file varianta)
               (probe-file variantb))
      ...)))

Bug: 1, Gut: 0。

显然，写这篇文章的人没有想到，也许检查所有三种变体是一个好主意。当然，这是我在最初编写这段代码十年之后(它比第一个SVN日志更早)最终追踪到的错误。

// (c) 2000 Applied Magic, Inc.
// Unauthorized use punishable by torture, mutilation, and vivisection.

啊，我一直很喜欢这个……

我最喜欢的是一个用java编写的学校项目的一些业务逻辑中的一个变量名。

int StupidJava = -1;

when :orientation
## Avoid matching gay people with straight people - they hate it, they do, they really do.
query_parameter = "(users.orientation = 'Bi' OR (users.orientation = 'Straight' AND users.gender IN ('#{user.opposite_genders.join('\',\'')}')) OR (users.orientation = 'Gay' AND users.gender IN ('#{user.same_genders.join('\',\'')}')))"

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