// Any maintenance developer who can't quote entire Monty Python
// movies from memory has no business being a developer. 
const string LancelotsFavoriteColor = "$0204FB"

为什么你不应该将你的软件开发外包的一个经典案例:

public class Contact
{
    //...    

    /// <summary>
    /// Gets or sets the name of the first.
    /// </summary>
    /// <value>The name of the first.</value>
    public string FirstName
    {
        get { return _firstName; }
        set { _firstName = value; }
    }
}

/*
This isn't the right way to deal with this, but today is my last day, Ron
just spilled coffee on my desk, and I'm hungry, so this will have to do...
*/

return 12; // 12 is my lucky number

// I dedicate all this code, all my work, to my wife, Darlene, who will 
// have to support me and our three children and the dog once it gets 
// released into the public.

我在重用我很久以前写的一个PHP类时发现了这一点。我仍然不记得那里有什么，我仍然发现它没有任何用处……我甚至不记得我写过那篇评论;所以当我找到它的时候，我真的笑出声来了。

try
{               
    // Some database logic
}
catch (Exception $ex)
{
    // sure, it looks silly and I honestly cant remember what code used to go here... but i swear i will
    // find a use for this code.... eventually....
    throw $ex;
}

在一个项目中，我们有一个依赖ppwlib，当时它的FreeBSD端口有点糟糕，所以我不得不从源代码手动构建它。但它并没有立即起作用，我不得不研究代码;有一些复杂的类层次结构，部分代码是由宏生成的，其父类声明以它们开始

// The root of all evil ... umm classes