/* Jeez, this is an ugly mess */

...comment from the X11R6 internals source code circa 1991.

Fix problem where Nulls don't work properly.  Stupid Microsoft!

代码以迂回的方式一行一行地将null转换为零长度的字符串，因为愚蠢的程序员不理解null是什么，也从未听说过Nz()函数。

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

这是一个旧的IOCCC获奖条目，我不得不下载整个获奖档案——一个巨大的1.4 M——和grep的几个短语，我记得错了才找到它。

从语法上看，这可能不是注释。或许是这样。我还没想明白。它肯定没有注释分隔符，但也没有字符串分隔符。

C="Lint says "argument Manual isn't used."  What's that
mean?";

没有价格来猜测棉绒的产量。

对于好奇的人来说，这个条目在这里。

我刚刚在。net的自定义Linq提供程序中找到了这个:

//select is a royal pain in the ass where 
//the parameter passed to CreateQuery isn't actually the one that goes in the call
//requiring this workaround.  Not sure how straight Linq to Objects does it.

还有这个

//expressions have to be compiled in order to work with the method call on 
//straight Enumerable somehow, LINQ to objects itself magically does this.  
//Reflector shows a mess, so I (Aaron) invented my own way.  God love unit tests!

我刚刚也找到了这个…一切都会变得更好

  //ok, this is a hairy, dirty, and nasty piece of code
  //the alternatives are substantially worse than this though
  //i.e. when you do your own provider, LINQ assumes that
  //you are going to implement your own expression tree visitor and
  //do it all yourself.  Frankly, I still have xmas shopping to do
  //and I really don't want us to be foobared when we get
  //even more extension methods added to LINQ
  //therefore, we are pulling execute based on taking the calling the 
  //standard execute on enumerable, but using our own class
  //
  //optimization can occur from here on an as needed basis, that is
  //check for the value of mex.Method.Name, and write a handler for
  //that method
  //
  //also, it may not be a bad idea to rather than do this reflection 
  //each and every time somehow cache the reflected methodinfos and do 
  //lookups that way that said, we need a complete red/green/refactor 
  //cycle here before I am touching that one

还有这个

//Compile that mutherf-ker, invoke it, and get the resulting hash

我最喜欢的评论是:

//the XML returned from this request is *mind-bogglingly* bad. Terrifyingly bad.
//a completed batch looks like this:
//<Batch>batchid=363777811 status=Done dateandtime=09/18/2007 09:53:10 PDT activateditems=335 numberofwarnings=0 itemsnotacivated=17 </Batch>
//and an incomplete batch like:
//<Batch>batchid=363778361 status=In Progress </Batch>
//so we'll just parse each item as a regex. Thanks Amazon.

Amazon实际上是这样返回XML的。