A colleague at work forwarded this link on our Dev chat channel and led me to a good session of unproductive hilarity. Code comments, when they are present, are a reflection of the personality of the programmers and it is great to see that as a community, we have quite a good sense of humor. I’ve compiled in the following list the 1o comments I found were the most hilarious or relevant. Of course this is my Top 10 and thus highly subjective:
// 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 = 39
/** * For the brave souls who get this far: You are the chosen ones, the valiant knights of programming who toil away, without rest, fixing our most awful code. To you, true saviors, kings of men, I say this: never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye. Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you. */Exception up = new Exception("Something is really wrong."); throw up;// somedev1 - 6/7/02 Adding temporary tracking of Login screen
// somedev2 - 5/22/07 Temporary my ass#define TRUE FALSE //Happy debugging suckers
if (/*you*/ $_GET['action']) { //celebrate// If this code works, it was written by Paul DiLascia. If not, I don't know who //wrote it.//When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing
//Now, God only knows// drunk, fix later// Magic. Do not touch.
Visit the link for more nuggets and context on some the comments listed above. What is the “best” code comment you ever saw?
The Chief Mercenary 
11 responses to “10 “Best” Code Comments”
Worst comment I ever saw:
// Comment goes here.
IMHO the worst are these:
//Setting foo to 7
foo=7;
//Check if bar is true
if(bar){…}
To be fair, #3 isn’t a comment.
No. 7 is awesome!
Nice compilation 😉 Several of them could be from my university assignments (post-drinking hacking was considered cool) 🙂
One of my real-live favorites is:
try {
..
} catch (SomeException e) {
// swallow
/*
* somedev1: what do you mean? african or european swallow?
* use http://style.org/unladenswallow/ for refrerence
*/
}
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6. is my favourite – nice PHP line!
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Some months ago I found this comment while digging through code:
// They made me do it