Just Eat It, Vol. 2
Just Eat It, Vol. 2 Nothing like an empty catch block to make one feel that the code is robust….
Just Eat It, Vol. 2 Nothing like an empty catch block to make one feel that the code is robust….
RIP, Douglas Adams I once came up with what I thought was an elegant solution to a particularly sticky problem, in retrospect it was a bit of a mind-bender and made some heavy use of macro programmimg. Years later I found this comment from a maintenance programmer /* Description: The Total Perspective Vortex derives its…
Tomorrow Never Dies That was line 2 of a 4000+ line PL/SQL procedure. And the only comment. 4 years after that procedure was developed, later still hadn’t come…
Even Khalesi There was some old javascript code, quite well written tho. Then was a comment line followed by a function 4 people spent a day to understand what it’s doing. Finally we realised it’s not even used and does nothing.
What’s that Mean Again This comment was in a unit containing interfaces which were used to bind communication between the main application and various 3rd party drivers.
Crocodile Dundee wrote software ED: Yeah, they’d be proud down under.
Ironic ED: Maybe they were being politically correct.
Colorful From the source code of the UNIX flavor of the Netscape web browser, circa 1997: Such pearls were unfortunately removed before Moz went open-source …
Compilers are Merciless ED: They just might, you know.