Incredible, real code I just ran into:
// FIXME: Explain this.
if (duration > 0)
duration += 5;
The code is 13 years old and the comment is 7 years old. No one ever explained it.
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in reply to @dog's post:
my favorite thing about being a programmer is all the weird and concerning comments I've found in code that are super old. I found one once that said "THIS MUST BE FIXED". It was like 5 years old and the code hadn't been changed since then.
the best way to protect your weird magic code - that works, you know through blood, sweat and tears that it works - from being refactored into brokenness is by adding exactly that kind of comment. // TODO figure out all use cases for this or something. better than "this is not a place of honour"