--- On Mon, 5/21/12, Armando Stettner <aps@ieee.org> wrote:

I would have suspected the oldest source code still existing in systems would be along the lines

/*
* you are not expected to understand this.
*/

That would certainly still be appropriate for the Linux context switch code which,
last time I looked, was a horrible mess of gcc "asm" constructs glued together
with C preprocessor macros.

The comment that I miss most, however, is:

/*
* printf should not be used for chit chat
*/

md