Developers say the funniest things

One of our QA’s job requirements is to make sure that the source code submitted by the programmers is “clean” – meaning, no hidden email addresses, personal copyright information, etc.

But I’m guessing some things are left overlooked – or simply just too hilarious to remove.

Computerworld recently published the funniest things they have discovered thru the Google Code Search.

Our favorites:

116: int_fast16_t reserved1;
/* Ask Bill Gates what this is all
about. */

47: /*
Very special greetings go out to Steve Jobs for creating a system
that doesn’t handle global construction correctly.

1629: I would like to digress at this point, and state that
I feel that George Bush is an incompetent fool.
Thank you.

5: module REXML
# God, I hate DTDs. I really do. Why this idiot standard still
# plagues us is beyond me.

967: the proper stuff.
Without this, it will choke
and try to use the memory handler
above, and fail miserably. That should
really be fixed. I beg you —
if you are reading this comment,
fix this :) */

103: * noise but I can’t find a better one within my wage slave
* cubicle and if I leave to record a good noise my boss might see me.

23: Though this is hardly GnomePixmap anymore :)
If you use this API in new applications, you will be strangled to death,
please use GtkImage, it’s much nicer and cooler and this just uses it anyway

/* The following functions are for internal use only! If you call them
directly, you will die a horrible, miserable, and painful death! */

48: ;;; I need to document the rest of these, but we just invaded Iraq
;;; so I’m going home. (Westy)

Links:
Oh, the things you’ll find in source code!

3 thoughts on “Developers say the funniest things”

  1. First,i\’m no stalker ha!My say;you\’ve been doing shadowly good things(really thanks ha) to PhilMusic(sorry,off topic)and yet music is not included or even mentioned from your FAQ.Are you into music?What type?
    Ok,ok…bout the chette.com
    ,the evolution from blog into official site is still there.It\’s plain but seriously,it\’s \”too\” cleaned.I feel,i\’m missing something.Parang bang i still crave for more happenings sa loob ng site.Sorry,I\’m just being honest here.

    rgds,
    Direk

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