Exactly. I don't remember what I had for breakfast, much less some brain fart I had 6 months ago. As a kid, I somehow got the impression that Microsoft had a

Exactly. I don't remember what I had for breakfast, much less some brain fart I had 6 months ago. As a kid, I somehow got the impression that Microsoft had a coding standard for 1:1 comments to code. So I thought I'd give it a try. (I had a lot of free time.) For the 1.x to 2.x version bump of my text editor, I meticulously went thru and commented everything. (I also switched to 1 statement per line guideline.) The outcome was awesome. By requiring a comment, any comment, for every statement, it evolved into a form of story telling. I wasn't just explaining obvious stuff. It helped tremendously with future maintenance. Alas, I've never repeated that experience. I'm not entirely sure why. It's a bit like Knuth style literate programming or TDD. Some kind of Platonic ideal. An esthetic ideal to strive for, but not very practical.