Having Fun Writing Software

I was exploring symstore.exe with Depends just now and came across a function in dbghelp that’s clearly not in the documentation. I got a nice chuckle out of it. :)

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What sort of “fun” (not nasty!) function names do you tend to create? Or do you keep them all boring plain Jane? (Boooo!!) The way metadata is exposed in the .NET world, combined with a tool like Reflector, make function names like this more readily “available”. But still, we’ve gotta have some fun somehow!

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2 Responses to “Having Fun Writing Software”

  1. Scott C. Reynolds Says:
    October 27th, 2007 at 12:44 am

    it was a bit over the top, but I recently named a function this:

    public void StupidBulls***FunctionToDoSomethingSlightlyDifferentToSatisfyOneClientThatNobodyButTheSalesRepEvenCaresAbout()

    i’m a firm believer in pragmatic function naming.

  2. John Robbins' Blog : itoldyouso – An Undocumented WinDBG Extension Command Says:
    October 28th, 2007 at 6:25 am

    [...] Lerch recently wrote about a funny name for an exported function he saw exported from DBGHELP.DLL, itoldyouso. Aaron [...]

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