[tophercyll]

I loathe source code templates. To use web (newspaper?) terminology, it puts the content below the fold.

It also raises the cost of factoring code out into its own file. Even a simple code header can easily be double the amount of code I consider worth extracting.

I know many IDEs add them automatically, so it doesn't feel like much of a cost to the writer, but as the reader, you pay it every time. Why waste brain power thinking "Ok, ignore everything above, this down here is the real source code"?

[j_baker]

In emacs, hs-hide-initial-comment-block works miracles. I'm sure other editors have ways to do that as well.

(That said, I totally agree with you. I wouldn't use them at all if I wasn't forced to at work.)