Of all the comments about code I've made, my favorite was actually out loud.
During a programming contest, I finished up a couple of routines and ran the
thing to make sure it compiled, didn't get any runtime errors, etc. When it
finished, I looked at the screen completely baffled.
"Did it work?" asked my partner.
"Yeah." I replied.
"So?"
"It shouldn't have. This here just throws a constant -- it's just dummy
code."
So I ran it on the second test case. Worked again. Instant confusion.
Turns out that '3' or whatever the dummy function was returning turned out
to be correct for a small but significant section of the problem space, but
for that first few seconds it was a really /wierd/ feeling.
-- Ben Doom
Programmer & General Lackey
Moonbow Software, Inc
: -----Original Message-----
: From: Ben Braver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 1:18 PM
: To: CF-Community
: Subject: Funny Code Comments
:
:
: Nick-
: re: the code comments,
: Worked once at EDS on an obscure mainframe - Burroughs 4800
: running MCP-V OS. Check processing application. Program which ran
: the MICR (magnetic ink)check sorter machines had a bold comment
: box at the top of a dense section of assembler code: "Abandon all
: hope he who changeth code between lines x and y". Nobody new
: exactly what the code did, but you couldn't touch it.
: :-)
:
: Another funny by an irreverent lead programmer at Del Monte
: Foods, in the COBOL Security paragraph:
: Security. Post 2 armed guards.
:
: -Ben
:
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