# dont question, i just felt like throwing some globals in
# this is actually quite pointless as youll soon see

稍后在代码中

#draw the circles (complicated)...dont question

更晚…

# complicated process of drawing the circles in a
# somewhat symmetrical, 3-d pattern
# dont question again

甚至以后……

# will determine if user clicks on die
# i determined these values...dont worry about them

在20世纪80年代早期的某个时候，我们在PL/I中为公用事业编写财务建模代码。接到一个客户的电话，说代码在评论之后就爆炸了

/* Honest this works */

这家伙用了我们的标准金融方程花了大约15页的代数把一堆代码组合成一个方程。在三里岛事件后，当公用事业公司不得不以巨大的代价注销他们的核电站时，这个方程失败了，因为FIXED BIN 15(整数)溢出，如果代数没有发生，就不会发生这种溢出。

/* This is O(scary), but seems quick enough in practice. */ 

后面是四个嵌套的for循环

场景一:

return 0; // Happy ending

场景二:

int32_t Interpolate1DSignal(
  Array1D<float64>::Handle hfInputSamples,         // samples to be interpolated
  Array1D<float64>::Handle hfInterpolationFilter,  // polyphase filter coefficients,
  int32_t iFilterInterpolationFactor,              // # of "rows" in polyphase filter
  int32_t iFilterLength,                           // Length of each row in filter
  float64 fInterpolationFactor,                    // Factor to interpolate the
                                                   // signal by
  float64 fTimingOffset,                           // Offset into the signal (units   
                                                   // of samples)
  Array1D<float64>::Handle hfOutputSamples         // left as an exercise for the reader
);

// simply copied from another code

有一些旧的javascript代码，写得很好。然后是一条评论线

// and there is where the dragon lives

接下来是一个功能，4个人花了一天时间来理解它在做什么。最后我们意识到它根本没用，什么都没有。