从一个遗留的Perl CGI脚本:

# This is convoluted and evil, sorry.

/*
 * You may think you know what the following code does.
 * But you dont. Trust me.
 * Fiddle with it, and youll spend many a sleepless
 * night cursing the moment you thought youd be clever
 * enough to "optimize" the code below.
 * Now close this file and go play with something else.
 */ 

//Dear future me. Please forgive me. 
//I can't even begin to express how sorry I am.  

我今天刚发现了这个:

//private instance variable for storing age
public static int age;

大约10年前，我从事图像处理工作，通过扫描显微镜视频帧来检测细胞运动。我当时在做一个特别复杂的工作，决定和朋友出去喝一杯。当我回到家时，我工作了一会儿，但没有太多，因为我喝醉了。第二天早上，我发现了一个10行完全混乱的函数，带有以下注释(显然是我自己写的):

/* Ah ah ah! You'll never understand why this one works. */

最奇怪的是，它竟然起作用了。

// TODO: Delete

从/系统/图书馆/框架/ AppKit.framework /版本/ C /头/ NSTextView.h:

- (void)smartInsertForString:(NSString *)pasteString replacingRange:(NSRange)charRangeToReplace beforeString:(NSString **)beforeString afterString:(NSString **)afterString;
- (NSString *)smartInsertBeforeStringForString:(NSString *)pasteString replacingRange:(NSRange)charRangeToReplace;
- (NSString *)smartInsertAfterStringForString:(NSString *)pasteString replacingRange:(NSRange)charRangeToReplace;

/* Java note: The second and third methods are the primitives and are the 
methods exposed in Java.  The first method calls the other two.  All 
Objective-C code calls the first method.  In either Objective-C or Java any 
overriding should be done for the second and third methods, not the first 
method.  This will all work out correctly with the exception of existing code 
that overrides the first method.  Existing subclasses that do this will not 
have their implementations available to Java developers. Isn't Java wonderful? */