It was thus said that the Great Fred Cisin via cctalk once stated:
>
> >>I like the C comment example; Why do I need to call out a comment with
> >>a special sequence of letters? Why can't a comment exist as a comment?
>
> Why not a language even more self-documenting than COBOL, wherein the main
> body is text, and special markers to identify the CODE that corresponds?
In the book _Programmers at Work_ there's a picture of a program Jef
Raskin [1] wrote that basically embeds BASIC into a word processor document.
-spc
[1] He started the Macintosh project at Apple. It was later taken over
by Steve Jobs and taken in a different direction.
