Funny Code comments

[Saif Asif]

Greetings fellow ranchers !

What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered in your programming career ? Either written by your-self or by any fellow programmer . Do share here everyone !

[Martin Vashko]

There is even an article about a comment that burned into my brain: Who is Gregor Samsa?

I didn't really enjoy it when I first saw it, since I've discovered it a similar way. But, in retrospect, it is funny!

[Saif Asif]

hehehe :-D good one ! I came accoss this once

//
// Dear maintainer:
// 
// Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine,
// and have realized what a terrible mistake that was,
// please increment the following counter as a warning
// to the next guy:
// 
// total_hours_wasted_here = 42
//

[Akhilesh Trivedi]

I have heard people writing Bollywood songs in code comments that pass code-review stages and go in production.!

[J. Kevin Robbins]

Not a comment, but I once encountered a custom exception class called BlondeInputException.

[Joe Ess]

One of my friends had an internship in West Virginia and he came back with a bunch of fun comments in the local dialect, for example, at the end of a series of conditions intended to whittle out non-compliant conditions:

// yep, by cracky, we got 'em!

Personally, I pepper my code with whatever I'm reading at the time, for example, I just saw a comment of a particularly relevant XKCD Comic

[Saif Asif]

BlondeInputException.

:-D


Another one I remember was something like this

Exception up = new Exception();
throw up ; // Eeeuughh :-D

[Bear Bibeault]

Way back in the Ice Ages when I was writing applications for Windows, I remember there was one section of code in an app that was the epitome of unreadable, unmaintainable, unintelligible code. It had been written by a long-since-departed contractor and was a crucial piece of the system that just about everything needed to use. It was riddled with bugs, but all the other code did ridiculous and over-complicated gyrations to get around the bugs, rather than anyone braving trying to fix the noxious code.

The comment on that block (I've saved it -- the comment, not the code -- to this day):

/*
// This is the place that we dare not look. We are repelled by it, terrorized. It is said one 
// will come one day and find the inward eye. He will look where we cannot. If you are 
// this Kwisatz Haderach, please fix this code. Otherwise, don't look here -- many have 
// tried, and died.
*/

[Steve Luke]

Bear Bibeault wrote:

/*
// This is the place that we dare not look. We are repelled by it, terrorized. It is said one 
// will come one day and find the inward eye. He will look where we cannot. If you are 
// this Kwisatz Haderach, please fix this code. Otherwise, don't look here -- many have 
// tried, and died.
*/

Which reminds me of this Dilpert Strip:

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2013-02-24/

[Bert Bates]

I once saw, in production, live, out-in-the-world code:

x = 5; // set x to 5

[Saif Asif]

it reminds me of another "mocking" comment I found in a C/C++ application back when I was a C developer

#DEFINE TRUE FALSE //Happy debugging suckers !!

[Steve Luke]

Saif Asif wrote:it reminds me of another "mocking" comment I found in a C/C++ application back when I was a C developer

#DEFINE TRUE FALSE //Happy debugging suckers !!

Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-comment-in-source-code-you-have-ever-encountered

[Saif Asif]

Wow ! Now I know from where it ended up in our app !

[Saif Asif]

Another one

//thou shall not alter the code or thou shallt face the wrath of the mighty Exception God !

[Saif Asif]

Quite recently I came across this .

//Fixme :  ? Dont even think about it !

[Steve Luke]

Saif Asif wrote:Wow ! Now I know from where it ended up in our app !

Along with all the other ones you have quoted in this thread.

[Kaustubh G Sharma]

//When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing
//Now, God only knows
// God I need to switch this job  

[John Jai]

Recently saw this....

catch (Exception e) {
    // who cares!!!
}

[Jeff Verdegan]

#DEFINE TRUE FALSE //Happy debugging suckers !!

Not in a comment, but I once ran across production code that essentially depended on that to work correctly. We received messages from a stock exchange with 1=buy and 2=sell, or something like that. The libraries we used transformed those into their own values--103 and 101 I believe.

Then one day I had to test a subset of the system in isolation. Where it had been exchange --> lib1 --> lib2 --> app, I changed it to simulator --> lib2 --> app. Everything broke. Horribly. After some digging I found out that all the simulated buys were being treated by the app as sells and vice versa. At first I freaked out, thinking we had a huge CF in production. After a moment I calmed down and realized that if that had been the case, there would have been screaming up and down the halls long ago.

After some digging, I found something like this:

lib1:
#define EXCH_BUY 2   ## JV -- exchange actually sends 1 for buy
#define EXCH_SELL 1  ## JV -- exchange actually sends 2 for sell

#define BUY 101
#define SELL 103

lib2:
#define LIB1_BUY 103  ## JV -- lib1 actually uses 101 for buy
#define LIB1_SELL 101 ## JV -- lib1 actually uses 103 for sell

So lib1 turned a buy into a sell, and lib2 turned it back into a buy, so that our app saw the semantics the exchange sent out, albeit via the scenic route. Two wrongs made a right and all was well, as long as we didn't try to separate lib1 from lib2, where the permanent crossing of the streams was the only thing that kept things working.

[Anayonkar Shivalkar]

Jeff's comment reminds me of a more horrible version:

#define TRUE rand()%2

Some more I've seen:

int numberOfThreads = 300; //madness? THIS IS SPARTA!!!

long long ago; //in a galaxy far far away

public int getRandomNumber()
{
    return 7; // I rolled two dice and got this number. So its perfectly random
}

public int getEmployeeSalary()
{
    return 15; // Today is my last day at job, and 15 is my favorite number
}

public void myMethod() {
    try {
        //someCode
    } catch(Exception e) {
        mymethod(); //mwuhahahaha!!!
    }
}

[Martin Vashko]

Anayonkar Shivalkar wrote:

public int getRandomNumber()
{
    return 7; // I rolled two dice and got this number. So its perfectly random
}

Someone apparently reads XKCD.

[Anayonkar Shivalkar]

Martin Vajsar wrote:Someone apparently reads XKCD.

Wow... I read that code on some forum (I guess StackOverFlow)

[Lalit Mehra]

Once I was working on someone's else code ... had to fix it actually ... but as the time slot was really really short ... i just bunked it and put a comment

Something weird is happening here ... I don't what ...

[Saif Asif]

I remember writing this numerous times in my code. Even still I write it.

//All hail the logged in user who is about to enter our realm from a universe far far away in the sesion space !
User user = request.getSession().getAttribute( LOGGEDIN_USER );