[geofft]

More importantly, today's code is an optional basis of tomorrow's code. When NASA wrote the code for Skylab, I bet the comments in this codebase were the only useful thing in it and the code was all noise.

If you don't want to spend your career rewriting the same thing over and over again for slightly different business use cases and platforms, comments are incredibly valuable. (On the other hand, I guess there's a lot of job security in being hired to write the same thing many times....)