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An old favorite of mine is the exception message "God Damned Exception" [0]
I stumbled across it in 2007, the day after Windows Vista was released. I installed Windows Vista, and the first thing that I installed was Notepad++. Shortly thereafter, I got a popup "God Damned Exception", but it wasn't immediately clear what application was raising it. I thought it was humorous to entertain the possibility that Vista had been released with this oversight. But... notepad++ was the only thing installed that was not Vanilla out-of-the-box Vista, so I searched through the notepad++ source to find/confirm it. It's been a favorite of mine ever since.
[0] https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/...
I see this huge C++ file and I raise you a Java file that's so enormous github refuses to render it: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/master/TMessagesProj/...
There’s one of those for C++ too, say hello to the .NET garbage collector: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/src/coreclr/gc/g...
TypeScript has the same; the whole type checker is in one massive file with 46,393 lines: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/main/src/compil...
IIRC they cited performance reasons when compiling the compiler for the decision not to split the file up, but I could be wrong on this.
That's great, and it's not all CS quotes. It reminds me of the quotes from the old UNIX fortune program [1] that many systems or accounts would be configured to use to show a quote on each login.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix) https://github.com/bmc/fortunes/blob/master/fortunes
