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

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://classicprogrammerpaintings.com/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

That was it, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You have comments in your legacy codebases?? Luckyyyyy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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