---
title: "Comment Rot(tm)"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/7/comment-rottm.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/7/comment-rottm.html"
published: "2004-05-07T20:26:00"
updated: "2004-05-07T20:26:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I must have missed this somehow, but Eric lippert writes about the dangerous and time consuming phenomenon called “ Comment Rot ”. I suggest you read it. I could not have said it better myself."
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Comment Rot(tm)

By Roy Osherove May 7, 2004 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 7, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

I must have missed this somehow, but Eric lippert writes about the dangerous and time consuming phenomenon called “[Comment Rot](http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2004/05/04/125893.aspx)”. I suggest you read it. I could not have said it better myself.

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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