From: kwsodema@avistainc.com (Kenneth W. Sodemann)
Subject: Re: Ada's Assembly Language Comments
Date: 1997/07/08
Date: 1997-07-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33c27bfe.7311828@news.mhtc.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5pi9tj$pvj$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au
On 4 Jul 1997 17:49:07 +1000, ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A.
O'Keefe) wrote:
>kwsodema@avistainc.com (Kenneth W. Sodemann) writes:
>>Why did the folks who defined Ada only define the one style of
>>commenting? I cannot say, but I can speculate based on why, at the
>>company I work for, our C and C++ coding standards all but outlaw the
>>old /* .. */ comment style.
>
>Your C coding standard had better _not_ outlaw the old /* ... */ comment
>style, because that is the ONLY comment style in C.
Right, I should have said our "C++ coding standard". My mistake.
Sorry about any confusion. (It has been so long since we have
actually done anything here in straight C, thank God!! :) )
>(C9X may adopt the
>// comments from C++, but the public comment draft of C9X is not yet
>with us, let alone C9X compilers.)
That would be a nice improvement to the language.
--
Kenneth W. Sodemann
kwsodema@avistainc.com
http://www.avistainc.com
Speaking for myself, _not_ AVISTA Inc.
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-07-03 0:00 Ada's Assembly Language Comments RC
1997-07-03 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1997-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-03 0:00 ` RC
1997-07-08 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1997-07-03 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-07-04 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-07-07 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-07-08 0:00 ` RC
1997-07-08 0:00 ` RC
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Joerg Rodemann
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Stuart Palin
1997-07-03 0:00 ` Kenneth W. Sodemann
1997-07-04 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-07-08 0:00 ` Kenneth W. Sodemann [this message]
1997-07-08 0:00 ` RC
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Dan Johnston D.B.
1997-07-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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