Very very funny source code comments..

[syedhs]

Funny Source Code Comments

Something which we all can relate to

My favorite being the funniest:-

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// John! If you'll svn remove this once more,
// I'll shut you, for God's sake!
// That piece of code is not “something strange”!
// That is THE AUTH VALIDATION.

And I think the comment below is valid comment (not exactly funny). The code was really from Paul DeLascia (I hope the name is correct). Paul is a famous book writer and programmer.

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// If this code works, it was written by Paul. If not, I don't know who wrote it

Edit: You can also follow the stackoverflow link.

[spacegaier]

Link not working . I think I fixed it though...

Really enjoyed the comments! Will try to re-use some of them in my future code .

[Kojack]

I was once maintaining an internal app for a company, it contained 2 scary comments (well, more, but I can't remember them):
"This is not the lazy loader you think it is" (exact wording, I've remembered that one for 11 years)
"I'm not sure why this is here, but it stops working without it" (paraphrased, can't remember the exact wording)

The app was a project and timesheet manager, written in vb5 and connecting to an access database. It was used to keep currently unassigned staff busy and to test out new employees, which was bad because it was a horrible mess (no documentation, no source control, no coding standard, no testing, no design, each coder did things in a different way, so the same functionality was implemented differently in each sub section of the app) and it was also used by every team in the company to manage their projects and staff pay.

[Sslaxx]

I was once maintaining an internal app for a company, it contained 2 scary comments (well, more, but I can't remember them):
"This is not the lazy loader you think it is" (exact wording, I've remembered that one for 11 years)
"I'm not sure why this is here, but it stops working without it" (paraphrased, can't remember the exact wording)

The app was a project and timesheet manager, written in vb5 and connecting to an access database. It was used to keep currently unassigned staff busy and to test out new employees, which was bad because it was a horrible mess (no documentation, no source control, no coding standard, no testing, no design, each coder did things in a different way, so the same functionality was implemented differently in each sub section of the app) and it was also used by every team in the company to manage their projects and staff pay.

Sometimes you've got to be grateful when shit like that works, no matter how horrifyingly bad it's coded.