[fotbr]

Take it up with programming 101 instructors around the world, who beat it into their students' heads that "every line" / "every function" / "every class" etc needs comments, no matter how redundant or bad the comment was, because "good code is commented". No joke, fairly well respected science & engineering university, every line of every program through the first three semesters of a CS program was required to be commented. After a while, slapping in useless and bad comments became habit, required for the assignment to even be considered for grading. It takes a while to break that habit.

[kevinpet]

Really? Find me one today. Find me a textbook that says that published in the last ten years. I'm tired of seeing this trotted out as a straw man of the crowd who thinks sometimes comments are good.

[fotbr]

I just know what I and my classmates went through. The commenting requirement wasn't from any book, it was a requirement coming from the professors who taught the courses.