I was doing a database in Access, very simple thing - at least it was supposed to be at the start or I would have done it in Delphi. The client wanted to be able to get the customer info out of the database but they would not enter enough information to reliably identify the customer. I told them to use the phone number as the key as each customer (the way they worked, not for everyone) would have a different number. After a few frantic calls from them, (It's not working we can't enter the customer) I discovered that they were too lazy to look up the phone numbers from their old system and were trying to enter all the numbers they did not know as "n/a". In trying to sort this out for them I ended up with a lot of checking loops in the code and had the comment beside one outcome "This should never be reached if they do what they are supposed to do!!!!!!!!!"

他们还曾经问过我:“即使我们输入了错误的地址，我们如何才能找到正确的客户?”而这一切都是为了花生。

/* Hammer Time! */

我不知道为什么，也不知道他在写代码时是否穿着防撕裂尼龙降落伞裤

//I'm sorry, but our princess is in another castle.

/*
    FIXME:  why the fuck did anyone ever think this kind of expensive iteration
                    was a good idea?

// if i ever see this again i'm going to start bringing guns to work

当我在高中上计算机课的时候，我们在一个普通的教室里上课——没有电脑。我们所有的测试都是在纸上完成的，一张纸上有一节课。我们的老师是第一次用c++授课，偶尔会在黑板上切换到Pascal模式。这很尴尬，因为我们中很少有人对学习帕斯卡感兴趣。

对于比课堂作业更大的作业，我们会在家里做，并提交代码和输出打印结果来评分。在提交了一些代码+输出输出后，我们共同意识到老师实际上并没有阅读代码-只是打印输出。为了测试我们的理论，我在代码的第三页放了一条注释——就在一些类声明之间:

// If you are reading this, please place a checkmark here [  ]

当然，我把它拿回来的时候，前面有一个大大的蓝色“a”，没有任何标记。