A classic case I can think of involved a JavaScript class (or "class" for the purists out there) that was just used for data interchange. Basically it was just

A classic case I can think of involved a JavaScript class (or "class" for the purists out there) that was just used for data interchange. Basically it was just a collection of properties. However, for each property "foo", there was a trivial accessor method called "getFoo()". And because the coding standards said that everything must be JsDoc'd (JavaDoc for JavaScript, basically), the property initialization in the constructor had a JsDoc comment, something to the effect of "This is the Foo.". Then the accessor function, getFoo() had a JsDoc comment to the effect "Gets the Foo". Now in all fairness, the JsDoc comments were used to pass type annotations to the JavaScript compiler/compressor/obfuscator. But still, what the hell is the point of not just writing useless comments, but writing them twice? Not to mention the fact that accessor functions aren't all that useful in JavaScript, and they're especially not useful for objects that are just a big bag of properties.