Back in the mid 1990s our team had to keep our compiled binaries under a certain size to fit on the eproms we were using. We were always refactoring and moving

Back in the mid 1990s our team had to keep our compiled binaries under a certain size to fit on the eproms we were using. We were always refactoring and moving things around to fit but it limited what we could do. A project manager suggested we "remove all of the comments from the code to save space" -- not realizing the compiler does that away.