"Richard A. O'Keefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We find
> - languages which have copied PL/I (/* ... */)
> - languages which have copied BCPL (//)
> - languages which have copied Pascal (* ... *)
Not to stick my head further into the discussion at this point, but
actually, original Pascal has {...} for comments. The diglyphs (* and
*) were used on systems like Pascal 1100 in Copenhagen, where the
UNIVAC "Fieldata" 6-bit (!) character set didn't contain curlies. (We
also used (. .) for array indexing because [\] had been replaced by
Danish characters.)
> - languages which have copied sh (#)
> - languages which have copied Burroughs Algol (%)
> - Fortran (only ever end-of-line comments, first C and now !)
> - BASIC (only end-of-line ' and REM comments, and you would certainly
> have to call VB.net "recent")
> - eclectic languages
>
> - languages designed for high reliability, notably Ada and Eiffel (--)
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