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Experienced engineer examines comments in a legacy codebase (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 years ago by yacgta@infosec.pub to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] yacgta@infosec.pub 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have a few of these but I forget where they came from, curious if anyone here knows

[–] Walop@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://classicprogrammerpaintings.com/

[–] yacgta@infosec.pub 2 points 2 years ago

That was it, thank you!

[–] Mikelius@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You have comments in your legacy codebases?? Luckyyyyy

[–] philm@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

// This enters the if branch if "myVar" == true
while otherVar == 42 {
    // do something
}

[–] Mikelius@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Lmao I've unfortunately seen stuff like this, where other parts of code that looked like just made up stuff had zero comments. Basically comments only where they weren't needed and lacking where they're needed