我喜欢GNU双utils中的一些注释。这个来自BFD som.c:

/* You'll never believe all this is necessary to handle relocations
   for function calls.  Having to compute and pack the argument
   relocation bits is the real nightmare.

   If you're interested in how this works, just forget it.  You really
   do not want to know about this braindamage.  */

这个也是:

/* Don't ask about these magic sequences.  I took them straight
   from gas-1.36 which took them from the a.out man page.  */

...

/* Keep track of exactly where we are within a particular
   space.  This is necessary as the braindamaged HPUX
   loader will create holes between subspaces *and*
   subspace alignments are *NOT* preserved.  What a crock.  */

另一个:

/* We will NOT put a fucking timestamp in the header here. Every
   time you put it back, I will come in and take it out again. ... */

从气体:

/* Yes this is ugly (storing the broken_word pointer
   in the symbol slot).  Still, this whole chunk of
   code is ugly, and I don't feel like doing anything
   about it.  Think of it as stubbornness in action.  */

// simply copied from another code

//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……

大概30页的xslt的中间部分

<!-- Here be dragons  -->

在开发团队中每个人都在大量编辑的代码文件头部:

'Avert your eyes, it may take on other forms!

好弗兰德斯。

事实上，有一天我在一些代码上看到了这个，这些代码是在截止日期很急的时候写的。

//This was clearly written under duress