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Yaser Adel Mehraban
Yaser Adel Mehraban

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What's the funniest comment you've encountered in code?

We all put comments in code from time to time. But being a consultant means I get a chance to work with many code bases and see many funny/aggressive/upsetting comments in code. What was the most interesting comment you've seen so far?

Let's have a laugh!

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Kirsty Wright

The worst out of context one I have seen in a codebase was :

This function kills all unadopted children

It was in relation to nested todo lists before anyone asks :).

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Yaser Adel Mehraban

Ohhhh, this is good one

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buphmin

So someone wrote a function called "rm_rf" which recursively went through and deleted all of the directories and files. The comment said something like "hmm, now why didnt I just use exec('rm -rf')" then a day later in another commit "I dunno but I probably shouldn't change it, who knows what might happen"

The other one (I know 2 for 1 special) was just "oh boy" and nothing else.

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Yaser Adel Mehraban

Classic

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Glenn Stovall

Not from my code, but when these discussions come up I always think of that one time a person wrote a code out of pure spite, with method names like

private void MakeSureNobodyAccidentallyGetsBittenByRichardsStupidity()

stackoverflow.com/a/184673

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Yaser Adel Mehraban

That's brutal 😱

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damian

// TEMP FIX MUST CHANGE BEFORE PROD - MMV 02/01/98

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Yaser Adel Mehraban

😂

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jlabs

I'll have to edit this post (if I remember to), but I recently read a comment embedded in a recovered file relating to Spotify. It was something along the lines of "at some point this function wasn't needed, but we've left it in because we don't know when it was removed"

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Yaser Adel Mehraban

I love a good doco in the code 😂