The worth of comments

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.2145.1306473197.9059.python-list at python.org>,
 Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> (Did I *really* write that code? It has my name on it.....)

Most version control systems have an annotate command which lets you see 
who wrote a given line of code.  Some of them are even honest enough to 
call the command "blame" instead of "annotate" :-)

And, yes, it's always a rude shock when I stare at some hunk of code, 
mutter, "who wrote this crap!?" and fire up annotate/blame only to 
discover my name on it.