A few weeks ago I was perusing a code base that I had never seen before, consisting of some 100 subprojects, mostly written about a decade ago. The code was mo

A few weeks ago I was perusing a code base that I had never seen before, consisting of some 100 subprojects, mostly written about a decade ago. The code was mostly entirely uncommented. In a few files, it was heavily commented, but often strangely... such as allegorical comments relating the code to a magic act ("and now we shall make the volunteer vanish into thin air!"), or quotes from movies that loosely described the code.