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spydez on July 25, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Coding Without Comments

My favorite comment that I've personally written:

    // Here there be magic. See datasheet for details; they explain it 
    // almost as well as I just did.

(followed by ~10 lines of math chock full of magic numbers.)

jgrahamc on July 25, 2008 [–]

I maintained a piece of 250,000 line C code that had one comment in it (apart from copyright notices):

/* bad code */

To this day I do not know if this was a comment on the quality of the code that came after it, or if the developer was reprimanding the code.

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