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Funny source code/documentation/comments?

kSquared · 2014-04-09T17:29:33

Background: my advanced data structures professor is in the annoying habit of giving us extra-credit questions in the form of fill-in-the-blanks from the voluminous C++ Standard. He claims that so far everyone our 27-person class has yet to produce a single correct answer, and that he was going to double the point value for each week that went by where no one got the answer correct. (I was speculating that we could, as a class, subvert this system by deliberately failing each question until the final quiz, and then cashing in a points bonanza. But then he capped the point limit at no more than the value of half the quiz. Bastard.) Anyhow, this led me to check out a copy of the C++ (ISO 14882) standard from our library and perusing it in the hopes that the right phrase would stick. That's when I came across this limerick in section 14.7.3: When writing a specialization, Be careful about its location, Else to make it compile Will be such a trial As to kindle its self-immolation. I'm sure you guys have encountered similarly amusing snippets, documentation, or comment fragments. Any recent finds of noteworthiness?

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Started by kSquared January 16, 2005 10:53 PM

75 comments, last by jonaakey 10 years, 5 months ago

Neex

402

January 17, 2005 05:30 AM

According to this page, the programmers porting Halo from PC to Mac found this in the source code:

              short m_c = m_g_m_b_n(                          o_d->o.m.i,   /******************/   n,   /*                */   o->o.r_p,   /*    o      o    */   NULL,   /*  \    <>    /  */   N,   /*   \________/   */   o_g_n_m(o_i),   /*                */   T_F(o->o.f, _o_m_b),   /******************/   m,                          m_m_c);

Also, the Marathon 2 source released by Bungie has some classics in it. Some I found just now:

this is not your father's texture mapping library.(in fact it isn't yours either, dillweed)

Friday, June 16, 1995 9:12:50 AM- I am completely fired. And a complete f***ing moron. The revert game information is stored in stale pointers, which is crack, because they are pointing into random stack memory. This is completely evil, totally stupid, and I feel ridiculously dumb.

Censored by me.

[Edited by - Neex on January 17, 2005 5:30:08 AM]

RipTorn

722

January 17, 2005 05:37 AM

I havn't really ever come across any truly funny comments...

but I've seen more than enough scary ones that just made me laugh..

if (...){...}else{   // do nothing}

or maybe this is more descriptive:

...//write the details of each bot to a file representing that botpublic static void removeBot(String idNumber){}...

Diodor

517

January 17, 2005 06:15 AM

Working on the Mac port of my game (which I wrote entirely), I search a bug for a couple of hours, only to discover it on a line with a "not portable, sue me" comment.

diogames.com

vNistelrooy

140

January 17, 2005 06:20 AM

Quote: Original post by Diodor
Working on the Mac port of my game (which I wrote entirely), I search a bug for a couple of hours, only to discover it on a line with a "not portable, sue me" comment.

lol, quite frustrating, eh?

"C lets you shoot yourself in the foot rather easily. C++ allows you to reuse the bullet!"

Dmytry

1,151

January 17, 2005 06:30 AM

hmmm...
i had that:
//if(k<0)then writeln('buggeroceratops!!!!');
and also i had some "testfuhrer" and similar thingies.

Another thing i seen somewhere was something like
for(fatherland=0;fatherland<100;fatherland++){
........
}
and something like
node1->MakeChild(node2);// O la-la!

clickster about funny variable names

i've seen some very funny page in the web but can't find it now.

sphinx23

188

January 17, 2005 06:38 AM

From the Unreal Tournament Public Source:

FFileManagerWindows.h:

SQWORD GetGlobalTime( const TCHAR* Filename ){ //return grenwich mean time as expressed in nanoseconds since the creation of the universe. //time is expressed in meters, so divide by the speed of light to obtain seconds. //assumes the speed of light in a vacuum is constant. //the file specified by Filename is assumed to be in your reference frame, otherwise you //must transform the result by the path integral of the minkowski metric tensor in order to //obtain the correct result. return 0;}

vNistelrooy

140

January 17, 2005 07:56 AM

Quote: Original post by sphinx23
From the Unreal Tournament Public Source:

FFileManagerWindows.h:
*** Source Snippet Removed ***

No way it is real!

"C lets you shoot yourself in the foot rather easily. C++ allows you to reuse the bullet!"

Karelian

236

January 17, 2005 08:11 AM

Quote: Original post by vNistelrooy
Quote: Original post by sphinx23
From the Unreal Tournament Public Source:

FFileManagerWindows.h:
*** Source Snippet Removed ***

No way it is real!

Hehehehe, good one.

kSquared

Author

1,356

January 17, 2005 09:19 AM

Quote: Original post by Zahlman
Anyway. c2.com > k^2. Sorry.

I have been challenged. I shall fetch my charts and graphs. *scribbles*

public static void Main(string[] args){  Console.WriteLine("The greater of the two is {0}", ("c2.com" >= "k^2") ? "c2.com" : "k^2");}

This prints "The greater of the two is k^2". So there!

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Cold_Steel

835

January 17, 2005 09:31 AM

I think I've done the following:

// If you need to read the comments to figure out what this does// you shouldn't be allowed to touch a computervoid printSomethingToFile();

Either that, or I just wanted to do it at work when I got a lecture on how important comments are from the guy who never adds meaninful comments.

I've also seen this in legitimate working code