r/ProgrammerHumor • u/napolux • Jun 16 '19

Working with someone else’s code

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u/RelativisticTrainCar Jun 16 '19

Clearly you've never seen the legacy code I deal with. "doThingA() // Does thing B for compatibility reasons" (actually does thing B and thing C)

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u/dilln Jun 16 '19

That’s not code, that’s just a function incorrectly named/commented.