// TODO: Finish.

// Holy moses! I've never seen anything so ridiculous in all my life. 

// Why do we need to query the AlarmIDs table twice.

// Please tell me sir; I would really like to know. 

// This like all the other services have been mangled

// to the point where they are nearly impossible to determine what kind of side affects might occur.

// I am making the smallest changes I can to this code. 

// The GetAlarmId method gets the alarm id from the AlarmIDs table.

// Novel idea, why didn't we query for the values be get below all in the same place.

// This should be changed, but right now it will have to remain as is due to time constraints.

// This like all other services really don't do anything fantastically hard, but after the original coders got

// done with them; they are difficult to work with and have an acceptable comfort level.

//把这个放在这里的人是个白痴…这根本不管用!

但是代码还在那里……

在1983年的COBOL中见过:

   C   I don't know what this next bit does so I'll jump around it
       GOTO DONE.

唐纳德·克努斯的另一个经典作品:

注意上面代码中的bug; 我只是证明了它是正确的，并没有尝试过。

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:)