Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments?

cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:

In article <86r0g3liii.fsf@linuxsc.com>,
Tim Rentsch  <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> wrote:
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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
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The original comment delimiters in C were copied from PL/I:  everything

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Cite?

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Seen in the B language manual:
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   Comments are delimited as in PL/I by /* and */.
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https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/kbman.html
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Note that this style of commenting was not present in
B's precursor language, BCPL.

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It would be appropriate to qualify this statement with some kind
of timeframe as BCPL is still used (albeit not widely, I assume).

The PL/I style of commenting was not present in BCPL at the time B
was being defined.  My source is MIT Project Mac Memorandum-M-352
dated July 21, 1967.  I expect this document can be found on the
net but I don't have a link for it.