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Article #1170Re: Cryptic comments
From: da... David Lee Matuszek
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1990 17:33
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1990 17:33
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Many years ago a friend (Hi, Carl!) and I wrote a program that displayed fireworks on the screen, very much like Pyro! does. (Gosh, it just occurred to me--I probably should sue them for "look and feel." Maybe I could make a bundle.) Anyway, the part of the program my friend wrote had only one comment in it: "WOW! LOOK AT THAT ONE" Actually, the most interesting comment I've ever run across was a comment (in fact, the only comment) in an assembly language program we inherited. On an obviously redundant instruction (I think it was the second "load accumulator" instruction in a row) was the comment "TRICK." We made numerous modifications and improvements to the program, but no one ever dared to touch that one line. -- Dave Matuszek (da...@prc.unisys.com) -- Unisys Corp. / Paoli Research Center / PO Box 517 / Paoli PA 19301 -- Any resemblance between my opinions and those of my employer is improbable. << Those who fail to learn from Unix are doomed to repeat it. >>
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!samsung!rex!uflorida!haven!udel!burdvax!dave From: da...@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Cryptic comments Message-ID: <12799@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> Date: 4 Feb 90 17:33:23 GMT References: <MERNST.90Jan31200807@owl.lcs.mit.edu> <1321@crash.cts.com> Sender: ne...@PRC.Unisys.COM Distribution: alt Organization: Unisys Corporation, Paoli Research Center; Paoli, PA Lines: 19 Posted: Sun Feb 4 18:33:23 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit