我在遗留代码中注意到的修改日志

05/17/99 d琼斯评论出来 血腥的auzies代码(02/19/99) k罗宾逊该死的德克萨斯人 不能正确拼写aussie(没有代码 改变-只是一个评论)

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。

刚刚在一些Actionscript中发现了这个，我必须更新…

/*
* spaghetty code in this module.
* hardcoded variables for load paths for the content window.
* Needs (vast) improvement.
*/

．．大:(

大概30页的xslt的中间部分

<!-- Here be dragons  -->

// I am not sure if we need this, but too scared to delete. 

try {
  dataSource.close();
}
catch (SQLException ex) {
  // Do nothing, since we're going to trash this anyway
}

当然，这类事情实际上是JDBC(或者至少是Oracle的JDBC驱动程序)中的wtf，因为它可以在关闭连接时抛出SQLExceptions…