From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, RATWARE_MS_HASH,RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: "Nick Roberts" Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada? Date: 1997/04/27 Message-ID: <01bc52a4$cbd55040$28f982c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 237609574 References: <5ih6i9$oct$1@waldorf.csc.calpoly.edu> <5j31lj$qnk@huron.eel.ufl.edu> <335F9D0E.41C67EA6@cacd.rockwell.com> <5jr4ak$dsm@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> Organization: UUNet PIPEX server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNet PIPEX) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-04-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Mike Haertel wrote in article ... > In article <5jr4ak$dsm@bcrkh13.bnr.ca>, Kaz Kylheku wrote: > >It's interesting that one of the requirements is a Nudds: that is, that the > >language support comments that are delimited by a special character (or > >character pair) and terminated at the end of the line. This is utterly a > >religious issue. > > That's not a religious issue, there's an actual reliability issue. > If a language has Pascal/PL1/C style comments, it's easy to accidently > comment out large blocks of code by forgetting a comment close > delimiter. I've done it in C. Often the result will still compile, > but the resulting program will crash in mysterious ways. With > comment-to-end-of-line that risk doesn't exist. > Although, of course, that problem tends to be historic now, with the (more or less) ubiquity of chromacoding editors. It was a serious issue at the time, though. Nick.