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Of course they are. Humor is useful. We tracked down a bug in our code the other day to one of the hard-coded internal constants being too high... It had the co

by lbrandy 18y ago

Of course they are. Humor is useful. We tracked down a bug in our code the other day to one of the hard-coded internal constants being too high... It had the comment "I sort of just made this up. Probably worth testing." If it had been commentless, we would have worried by moving it we'd fix our use-case but break some other use-case.

gabrielroth 18y ago
What's useful there is not the humor but the information.
- lbrandy 18y ago
  Humor is still useful, just less evidently. It helps create a good environment and culture.
  - tjr 18y ago
    I agree entirely, but I have learned that some major airplane manufacturers hold quite the opposite opinion.
silentbicycle 18y ago
I don't think that's an example of humor in comments -- it's just saying, "I'm not sure this is right, you should test it." That's pretty important, actually. I think the question is more about comments that are just puns or something, like: p = point(w, 0, 0); /* woo hoo! */