Historical Notes
Today my teammate Matan has sent me a piece of code I wrote a while ago, which he had to read for some reason.
The code had the following comment:
//Changed by Doron Yaacoby: 9/7/2006, WC Finals. Forza Italia!!!
I love to leave amusing little comments in my code, especially on special occasions/circumstances. It's always fun to look back later at the code and reminisce in that little piece of history. Nostalgia is always a fresh breath of air, especially if you're trying to fix something in an old piece of code.
Also, if you're debugging someone else's 3 years old code, while cursing him every single second, you might cut him some slack if you see a comment such as: //Added on 31/12/2003, 23:32 :(
So my suggestion is to leave these little historical notes around. They certainly can't hurt, and they will bright up someone's sad debugging night in a year from now.
And my question to you - what kind of funny comment did you run into lately?