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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostWritten by the highly paid programmer himself?
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostI once came across the following comment;
' Nobody around here knows that this bit does
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I once came across the following comment;
' Nobody around here knows what this bit doesLast edited by Mich the Tester; 25 August 2011, 09:13.
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I left a legacy of rude words in my client's code. For some reason code always worked after you rudified it.
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I seen some great stuff in comments over the years - including some spectacularly sweary ones in one product - I also saw a function commented as "sort out stupid American date format" (written by an Aussie)
The Americans ruined all our fun with their straight-laced puritanism again - remember all those Easter Eggs? Killed by US govt.
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Some of the error conditions in my early code ~20years ago had something like...
; Houston, we have a problem.
or if it was particularly complicated...
; Here be Dragons...
Nobody ever complained in the code reviews
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Originally posted by thunderlizard View PostDisappointingly, it was "future" in the financial sense (so should technically have been "futures") and just did a database lookup.
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Disappointingly, it was "future" in the financial sense (so should technically have been "futures") and just did a database lookup.
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Originally posted by thunderlizard View Post...contained the following method, before I deleted it:
Code:bool DoesFutureExist()
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Client's legacy code
...contained the following method, before I deleted it:
Code:bool DoesFutureExist()
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