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。

我刚刚完成了一个日志框架(使用Trace，为什么没有这样的存在我不知道)。我做了一个继承自TraceListener的方便基类。它覆盖了所有的TraceListener方法，并将它们路由到一个方法中——因此有很多文档注释:

// TODO: Need some codemonkey to doc comment this class.

在一个著名的商业DOS电子表格应用程序中:

/* This comment was just added in order to check-in a file that was last 
checked in by [Insert Programmer FirstName] "Back-to-the-Future" [Insert 
Programmer LastName]. While testing for year 2000 problems, he accidentally 
checked-in this file while his machine clock was set forward to the year 2000. 
This meant that the source code was always newer than the object file and 
compiled every time the code was built. I'm checking this file in again to 
fix that. */

从Joomla !来源:

// fudge the group stuff

// TODO - Comment this function

一个文件中5000多行代码中很少的一些注释 事实上，我和那个为自己的编码风格辩护的程序员有过一次争论…… 无可奉告! 没有评论;-)(或者很少) 遗憾的是，这是产品代码。

offset=1;
for (i=0;i<=len;i++)
    {
    if ((i!=0)&&(i<len)) //-3
        {
        switch(mess[i])
            {
            case ETX:
            case ETB:
            case DLE:
                buf[offset]=DLE;
                offset++;
                break;
            }
        }
    buf[offset]=mess[i];
    offset++;
    }

我喜欢这个开关!

for (n=0;n<offset;n++)
{
    Sleep(TR);  //Modif A
    Sleep(T);//
    FWriteFile(hCom,buf+n,1,&dwMot,NULL);
    if (ECHO)
        FReadFile(hCom,tab,1,&dwMot,NULL);
}

不，没有注释解释什么“修改A”是在标题。

if (GetFileSize(hSlotFile,NULL)==3600)   //5*720

720是多少?