Archived What is your favorite comment you came across in code? (programming)
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Archived What is your favorite comment you came across in code? (programming)
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[–] emag 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
While not exactly "the wild", I came across an example of a comment that wasn't helpful in a textbook back in college. The comment was "horse string length into correctitude". I've made it a mission to use this comment whenever I need to manipulate a string to adjust its length to something the code can handle, just to ensure that it's a legit and helpful comment.
[–] for_satan [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
God that sounds awful for a textbook. No wonder a fair bit of people fail out of CS.
[–] Enemby ago
It could be intentionally bad, it's odd wording by /u/emag .