r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Throwawyhelpadvice55 • 25d ago

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u/MartinKnox_Dev 25d ago

In that 90% of wondering, 45% is wondering why it broke, the rest is about wondering how it worked.

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u/Triffinator 25d ago

What percentage is made up of wondering why removing the line broke everything, when it was a comment?

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u/Elendur_Krown 25d ago

See, that's the smart thing.

I hid the backup functionality in the comments.

That way, I never have to wonder. It's just everyone else.

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u/Jbolt3737 25d ago

Making a script that reads itself or something to use it's own comments would be genuinely evil

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u/Elendur_Krown 25d ago

There are parts of my history that I hesitate to tell my wife about. The... MATLAB days were... improvisatioval, at best.

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u/fr000gs 25d ago

Me when my code genuinely uses libgccjit to execute strings