Original languages were line oriented, newer languages were block oriented.
Original languages has line comments. Newer languages had block comments, and had line comments added back in. So I would read that as line comments being more fundamental, but people who used line comments got so sick of them that they thought block comments would be a good idea. (david) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I've designed a language, Decaf, for beginners. I've got block > comments but not multi-line strings. > > If you can only have one or the other, which is more helpful? > > Should I have both? (Make a strong argument here: my design principal > is, "Designed by a backpacker: when in doubt, leave it out.") -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list