June 25 2007

Descriptive Comments For The Angry Developer

We all know that a picture is worth 1,000 words. We also know that programmers are lazy and typing comments is boring. After reading the following post about “comments from a madman” on Worse Than Failure I started to realize the pure genius of it all.

Here are 3 “descriptive comments” for use whenever you are frustrated and editing another person’s code. They can also be used to give co-workers a good laugh.

They are setup for use as a TextMate snippet — so ignore the $1/$0

The formatting is a bit off on the webpage — use the SVN link below to grab the text file
Public SVN: ascii_comments.txt
svn export http://svn.ubrio.us/public/ascii_comments .

Skull & Cross Bones
Source: WorseThanFailure commenter “marlow4”

/*************************************************************
 *       		  				     *
 *  .=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-.       *
 *   |                     ______                     |      *
 *   |                  .-"      "-.                  |      *
 *   |                 /            \                 |      *
 *   |     _          |              |          _     |      *
 *   |    ( \         |,  .-.  .-.  ,|         / )    |      *
 *   |     > "=._     | )(__/  \__)( |     _.=" <     |      *
 *   |    (_/"=._"=._ |/     /\     \| _.="_.="\_)    |      *
 *   |           "=._"(_     ^^     _)"_.="           |      *
 *   |               "=\__|IIIIII|__/="               |      *
 *   |              _.="| \IIIIII/ |"=._              |      *
 *   |    _     _.="_.="\          /"=._"=._     _    |      *
 *   |   ( \_.="_.="     '--------'     "=._"=._/ )   |      *
 *   |    > _.="                            "=._ <    |      *
 *   |   (_/                                    \_)   |      *
 *   |                                                |      *
 *   '-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-='      *
 *   	                                                     *
 *   WARNING:                                                *
 *	$1
 *   	                                                     *
 *************************************************************/
$0

Smashing face into brick wall (we've all been there)
Source: http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/ (can't remember under which name)

/*************************************
 *      ####  *                      *
 * BANG ##*# /                       *
 *      ###\ ___ ,- -                *
 * BANG ####/   \ ,- -     WHY?!@    *
 *      ####|-   | ,-                *
 * BANG ###/ \_  L_                  *
 *      ##*#  /'   \                 *
 *      ####_ ||    |                *
 *      ####_\|\ / /\                *
 *      ###(_`-./ /  \               *
 *      #### `-._/\   |              *
 *      ####      |   |              *
 *      ####      /   /              *
 *      ####     /   / \             *
 *      ####     |  |\  \            *
 *      ####     \  \ \  \           *
 *      ####     _\  \_\  \          *
 *      ####    (_____)____)         *
 *      ###########################  *
 *
 *	$1
 *
 ************************************/
$0

W.T.F? Nothing else to be said.
Source: http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/ (can't remember under which name)

/*******************************************
 *                        ,-------------.  *
 *                       ( 	WTF?!    ) *
 *               _     O  '-------------'  *
 *             ,'-'. o                     *
 *             :_ _:                       *
 *  ..._       \ _ /       _.,,            *
 *   '-.>.   _,-'-'-._   ,<,-'             *
 *     :  \ /         './  ;               *
 *      \  '              /                *
 *       \  ,|       |.  /                 *
 *        '' |       | ''		   *
 *           :_______:                     *
 *           |       |                     *
 *           |       |		           *
 *           |   .   |                     *
 *           |   |   |                     *
 *           |   |   |                     *
 *           |   |   |                     *
 *           |   |   |                     *
 *           |___:___|                     *
 *           /___/___\                     *
 *******************************************
 *
 *	$1
 *
 ******************************************/
$0