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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: Ada's Assembly Language Comments
Date: 1997/07/04
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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.)

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