Over the years, I’ve participated in numerous code reviews, and I’ve seen a few function names that were worthy of true shame. However, the Hall of Shame demands only the best (or the worst, depend on your point of view), and so, I have whittled it down to a few of the most worthy. Consequently, I nominate the following for the Hall of Shame:

1. NOTE: Could this function be any more ambiguous?
   private string GetTableData()
2. NOTE: Our new programmer just might be dyslexic or suffer from something worse
   public int ManageJoinUsingDelete(…)
3. NOTE: Do we need to know every step involved in the name?
   private int GetUpperRangeOffsetBySubtractingProductOfTwoSums()
4. NOTE: I hope that this ‘body’ refers to text and not a dead hooker
   public void EndStreamingNoAttachIfBody(…)
5. NOTE: This function needs more ‘temp’
   public int PopulateTempTemporaryTransfer(…)
6. NOTE: This seems so wrong on so many levels
   public bool IsFalse()
7. NOTE: He’s not exactly creative, is he?
   public void TransformData(…)
   public void TransfromDataPlus(…)
   public void TransformDataPlusExtra(…)
8. NOTE: They do say that string mathematics is a dying art
   private string CalculateNextLessThanOrEqualNumber(string)
9. NOTE: ???
   private string GenerateTempGetUpdateOrGetInsertWhereCriteria(int)
10. NOTE: I like it…straightforward, single in use, and stupidly simplistic
    private string SurroundWithParantheses(string)

Peter Bolton is the author of Blowing the Bridge: A Software Story and has also been known to be a grumpy bastard on occasion.