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Way back in the dark ages when I was programming (in asssembly language, yet!), everyone did that. As Gene noted, it was a way of identifying your own code, but also indicated both a sense of humor and a pride of authorship. Being a sneaky little snob in those days, I used to write mine in either Latin or German, both of which I've largely forgotten now, sadly. Anyway, we were officially forbidden from using the names of trademarked characters, so there was a lot of creative misspelling!
From: Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
Subject: Re: Code Annotation of the Week
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 11:41 PM
It certainly would be if it was something that was displayed to the user. As a
hidden code comment, not so odd. At one time this sort of thing was commonly
used to make it easier to identify code that someone had stolen out of your
product. I'd bet that someone with more SW experience than I have has probably
seen some really strange stuff hidden in code.
Gene Kim-Eng
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From: "Janice Gelb" <Janice -dot- Gelb -at- Sun -dot- COM>
> I've seen short lines like this too but I thought
> the one I sent to the list was unique. It certainly
> is in my experience.
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