You get it. I get it. Unfortunately every intro class inculcates
generous commenting, a "best practice" further promoted by corporate
proceduralists and mediocre programmers who inexorably become managers.
A comment longer than 160 characters is always weak-sauce justification for
logic written awkwardly.
For the most part comments I appreciate are something like "the obvious thing here is xyz, but we can't do that because of this goofy limitation of software we're integrating with."
But out of date in which way? It could be anything from some extra cases to literally the opposite of what the comment says to the code has changed so much it’s not even clear what the comment refers to anymore.
