Charles without a beard?! Some things aren't meant to be!
As for your question, Agent316... The comments in UBB aren't all worthless. If you start to get involved in writing hacks, some comments are invaluable, because some subroutines can get extremely complicated. Just look at some of the UBB Library files (anything beginning with ubb_lib)...
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