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From: "Gold Rush Graphics" <goldrushgraphics@erols.com>
Subject: Comments?
Date: 1999/01/16
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Date: 1999-01-16T20:32:32+00:00
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I have a question...I am learning some programming languages and have
noticed that some languages such as Pascal and C++ use delimiters on both
ends of comments. Other languages, such as Fortran and Ada, use a symbol of
symbols to indicate the beginning of a comment and the end of line to
terminate it. Why would these languages take such different aprouches to
solving the same problem and which method is better?

--Seth