From several years ago.
“That is some fucking ugly string handling code.” I said as I looked over the shoulder of a colleague at the code he had written in TurboC.
“I agree it could stand to be prettified. I could write a prettification function.” He nodded.
“As opposed to now where it is a string petrification function? The only way that code could be prettified is with the backspace key.”
In my youth, I wasn’t known for my diplomatic language.