在编写MAPPER应用程序时，我们有一些标准，其中之一就是在整个套件中使用的标准变量列表。其中一个“V43”总是用来表示姓氏。所以，想象一下，当我被要求修复一大块MAPPER代码中唯一的注释是:

Here V43 contains the Surname

//todo: never to be implemented

Many years ago (about 1994) I was working on a Oracle PRO*C application for a large multi-national software company that you will have heard of. The app I was working on was a massive Oracle application and they had a utility that ran overnight tidying up data and doing all sorts of aggregate calculations. Every time anything needed doing as a batch job, it got shoved into this utility and as you can imagine it became an absolute monstrosity. It was also notable for the tiny number of comments that it had for such a massive program.

它为数不多的评论之一仍然是我所见过的对纯粹的WTF的最好的评论……我试图在一个函数中找到一个bug，它有数百行长，中间是函数中唯一的注释:

/* I did this the other way */

直到今天，这仍然是我所见过的最好的评论。

当被问及什么是“最好的评论”时，我们的回答都是我们能找到的最糟糕的评论，这充分说明了我们的职业……

catch (Domain.ConcurrencyException)
{
    // somebody changed it between the time we loaded it and now.
    // weird, huh?
}

最近在我们的代码中发现了这一点(我们开发企业软件):

// Instance of excel
Excel excel = this.CreateExcelInstance();
excel.Open(stream); // how to close it?!

在此之前，我确信我们已经摆脱了这些“有趣的东西”，我们正在以正确的、意识形态正确的方式做这件事……