/**
Dear maintainer:
Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine,
and have realized what a terrible mistake that was,
please increment the following counter as a warning
to the next guy:
total_hours_wasted_here = 42
**/
…on’t get me wrong, there are times — especially when you are slogging through a crushing workload — where injecting a bit of humor can be good for the soul. But when you write a funny comment to make up for bad code, it actually makes people less likely to refactor and fix the code later.