While I agree useless comments are bad, especially in production, is there any reason why you don't just have a macro in your editor (assuming vim here) to do

While I agree useless comments are bad, especially in production, is there any reason why you don't just have a macro in your editor (assuming vim here) to do :view :g/^\s*#/d (this sets vim into read-only mode and then deletes all comment lines, assuming # for comments).