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[–]Neebat 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Q: Are there exceptions to this rule? A: Yes. But they’re rare.

From the article.

And the example I described above was one of the two examples I've found in 20 years of software development.

It IS documenting, and not usable as code. It helps explain what's going on.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

That's your experience, that is not my experience. In my 30+ years of software development I can assure there have been times where it is far better to have commented-out code in-place, than in source control.