From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: Ada's Assembly Language Comments
Date: 1997/07/04
Date: 1997-07-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5pi9tj$pvj$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 33bbbea9.8325807@news.mhtc.net
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. (C9X may adopt the
// comments from C++, but the public comment draft of C9X is not yet
with us, let alone C9X compilers.)
--
Four policemen playing jazz on an up escalator in the railway station.
Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok; RMIT Comp.Sci.
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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 ` RC
1997-07-08 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1997-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-03 0:00 ` Kenneth W. Sodemann
1997-07-04 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe [this message]
1997-07-08 0:00 ` Kenneth W. Sodemann
1997-07-08 0:00 ` RC
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Dan Johnston D.B.
1997-07-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Robert Munck
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 ` Stuart Palin
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Joerg Rodemann
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