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From: Anonymous <nobody@remailer.paranoici.org>
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> That is why I do not like Fortran choice of a comment line, which is "!"

Actually the FORTRAN (all CAPS) choice of a comment line is "C" not "!"!

> I have no idea who selected ! for comment in fortran, I think it was
> bad choice, IMNSHO.

You missed the first 40 years of FORTRAN development. I have no idea if/when
anybody started using "!" but I never saw it.

Anyway it's alot of fun to argue about C/C++ operators like == when C/C++
butchers other operators. == is the smallest of its problems.