A lot of articles flying around about the proper way to comment or not to comment code and honestly I feel my commenting habits are something I can improve on so I haven't commented (yea 2 many puns in 1 sentence, you can always comment them out).

Everyone seems to have an opinion but its this article that to me really hit buttons http://www.whitewashing.de/blog/articles/116

This person takes a reasonably sensible and easy to read piece of code and tortures it into twice its size in the name of making it easier to read...

So let me get this straight? More code, slower code is preferable to a single line or 2 of comments? How many websites/projects out in the real world (something i am not sure this guy is aware of) would of never made it off the ground if they used this coding methodology.

Your basically telling programmers they should write twice as much code and telling the system admins they will need more powerfull servers because you had to use twice as much code.. Why? Because comments are the root of all evil and you refuse to use them!! (ok maybe overstated that a bit but you get my point!)

Everyone needs to take a deep breath and realize a few things

1. Comments have a place in the world. 1 comment line beats out 20 lines of over stated, extended, twisted methods of redundancy.

2. Comments are not the cure-all for code awareness and not an excuse for code stupidity.

3. Developers are stubborn pains in the ass who refuse to agree on anything, Who in the world really thinks you can get them ALL to agree on a single commenting methodology!