Commenting on Code, Considering Data's Bottleneck

In computer science, you are taught to comment your code. When you learn a new language, you learn the syntax for a comment in that language. Although the compiler or interpreter ignores all comments in a program, comments are valuable. However, there is a recent viewpoint that commenting code is bad, and that you should avoid all comments in your programs. In the 2013 article No Comment: Why Commenting Code Is Still a Bad Idea, Peter Vogel continued this discussion.