Notice that this only makes sense if a "bad" comment is somehow still "worthwhile." And we'll incur the cost of writing and maintaining (and, apparently doing c

Notice that this only makes sense if a "bad" comment is somehow still "worthwhile." And we'll incur the cost of writing and maintaining (and, apparently doing code reviews on) bad comments to get there. And that ignores the cost of programmers reading and attempting to process bad comments. Personally,I would rather have well written code than bad comments...and I think programmers can actually create well written code. I question whether we should reasonably expect our programmers, after creating well written code, to suddenly acquire the skillset for writing "worthwhile" comments. Peter Vogel