/* Halley's comment */

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。

REM Don't delete this print statement ****** will die

所讨论的流程是一些遗留代码中的服务

在js代码中:

// hack for ie browser (assuming that ie is a browser)

/* This is O(scary), but seems quick enough in practice. */ 

后面是四个嵌套的for循环

//Code sanitized to protect the foolish. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.Reflection; using System.Web.UI; namespace Mobile.Web.Control { /// <summary> /// Class used to work around Richard being a fucking idiot /// </summary> /// <remarks> /// The point of this is to work around his poor design so that paging will /// work on a mobile control. The main problem is the BindCompany() method, /// which he hoped would be able to do everything. I hope he dies. /// </remarks> public abstract class RichardIsAFuckingIdiotControl : MobileBaseControl, ICompanyProfileControl { protected abstract Pager Pager { get; } public void BindCompany(int companyId) { } public RichardIsAFuckingIdiotControl() { MakeSureNobodyAccidentallyGetsBittenByRichardsStupidity(); } private void MakeSureNobodyAccidentallyGetsBittenByRichardsStupidity() { // Make sure nobody is actually using that fucking bindcompany method MethodInfo m = this.GetType().GetMethod("BindCompany", BindingFlags.DeclaredOnly | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic); if (m != null) { throw new RichardIsAFuckingIdiotException("No!! Don't use the fucking BindCompany method!!!"); } // P.S. this method is a joke ... the rest of the class is fucking serious } /// <summary> /// This returns true if this control is supposed to be doing anything /// at all for this request. Richard thought it was a good idea to load /// the entire website during every request and have things turn themselves /// off. He also thought bandanas and aviator sunglasses were "fuckin' /// gnarly, dude." /// </summary> protected bool IsThisTheRightPageImNotSureBecauseRichardIsDumb() { return Request.QueryString["Section"] == this.MenuItemKey; } protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e) { if (IsThisTheRightPageImNotSureBecauseRichardIsDumb()) { Page.LoadComplete += new EventHandler(Page_LoadComplete); Pager.RowCount = GetRowCountBecauseRichardIsDumb(); } base.OnLoad(e); } protected abstract int GetRowCountBecauseRichardIsDumb(); protected abstract void BindDataBecauseRichardIsDumb(); void Page_LoadComplete(object sender, EventArgs e) { BindDataBecauseRichardIsDumb(); } // the rest of his reduh-ndant interface members public abstract string MenuItemName { get; set; } public abstract string MenuItemKey { get; set; } public abstract bool IsCapable(CapabilityCheck checker, int companyId); public abstract bool ShowInMenu { get; } public virtual Control CreateHeaderControl() { return null; } } }

更新:代码的原作者已经暴露了自己，所以我必须在适当的地方给予赞扬。Dan McKinley在我入职后不久就离开了我所在的公司，他讲述了更多关于代码的内容，解释了一些背景知识和“Richard”所写的一些“WTF”。