The Biggest WHY Comment I’ve Ever Seen
Posted by Davy Brion on November 26th, 2009
One of my coworkers wrote the following WHY comment yesterday:
// __ ___ ___ __ ___
// \ \ / / | | \ \ / / |__ \
// \ \ /\ / /| |__| |\ \_/ / ) |
// \ \/ \/ / | __ | \ / / /
// \ /\ / | | | | | | |_|
// \/ \/ |_| |_| |_| (_)
//
// Because the normal ChildWindow causes a memoryleak.
// The memory leak was created because the ChildWindow subscribed to the RootVisual_GotFocus multiple times...
November 26th, 2009 at 9:58 am
it sure helps for getting that code comments ratio code metric in the greens
November 26th, 2009 at 11:58 am
http://www.network-science.de/ascii/
It’s great for when you need comments that really stand out, like in files that are over 5000 lines
November 26th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Font width needs adjusting for the ‘W’
November 26th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
We used figlet … I was one of the coworkers
November 26th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
@Awkward Coder — the link Rob sent produces a wider ‘W’ using the ‘big’ font. I agree, looks a tad better.