Quote Originally Posted by markl999 View Post
I would personally never remove comments. The tiny performance gain you may get is more than offset against the time you'll spend trying to work out/fix/maintain uncommented code.
Couldn't agree more Mark, where I am currently working the previous developer who wrote a custom OOP CMS (PHP4) didn't comment ANYTHING. Now the class files have around 4000 lines of code - pure code and there are about 10 class files. That equates to c40,000 lines of uncommented code!

Debuggin that is a PITA and the developer who came after him galantly tried to comment some of it up and explain it but didnt get that far, so coming in cold to 40,000 lines of OOP is painful.

I would gladly trade a 0.000025 time difference for the 5 months of debugging and function tracing I have had to do