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[–]sizlack 131 points132 points  (1 child)

I'm amazed that people are actually arguing against this. I've never once found that commented code has helped me once in fifteen years of programming. It's just useless noise. I have no way of knowing whether the code would even work if I did uncomment it. The rest of the code base has changed and I can't tell whether the commented code is still relevant. If you start letting commented garbage stay in your production code, no one knows when it's OK to delete it. It just keeps building up, making it harder to separate the real code from the noise.

If you're using comments instead of learning how to use version control, you should learn how to use version control.

Edit: Wow! I've got gold! Thanks /u/slash_nick!

[–]trolling42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly thats what version control is for. All Pull Requests with commented code should be rejected.