来自Apache Xalan源代码:

/**
 * As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself
 * transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was lying on his hard,
 * as it were armour plated, back, and if he lifted his head a little he
 * could see his big, brown belly divided into stiff, arched segments, on
 * top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about
 * to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin
 * compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes.
 * "What has happened to me?", he thought. It was no dream....
 */
protected static String DEFAULT_TRANSLET_NAME = "GregorSamsa";

进一步阅读The Daily WTF。

大概30页的xslt的中间部分

<!-- Here be dragons  -->

// if i ever see this again i'm going to start bringing guns to work

这不是严格意义上的评论，但是…

那是20世纪90年代中期，我正在进行一次大的迁移:小软件供应商，大客户，压力很大。我们有很多转移门柱的东西;这个项目很难控制。我是关键的开发人员，但对系统还不熟悉，而另一个开发人员是供应商的所有者/创始人。

在几个月没有按时完成任务，也没有让客户满意之后，公司的所有者/创始人找来了另一名远程工作的开发人员。(我可以大胆地说，新开发人员的技能和经验都不如我。)

好吧，这个新人对我已经做过的代码做了一些更改，然后一两个月后我又回到了代码的同一区域，其中有一些我以前没有见过的变量。他的名字叫StupidMark。

伙计，这是不对的。我的意思是，有团队合作方面的考虑，但是:在这个环境中，变量名可能会出现在运行时错误消息中。我只是说说而已。

在我看来，那个新人的代码并没有让我们更接近可交付的产品，这让侮辱变得更伤人了。

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。

下面是一个必须声明的局部变量，只是为了将一个常量传递给库函数:

// This only exists because Scott doesn't know how to use const correctly