Re: Is there a way to do large block of source code comments

[Adam Beneschan <adambeneschan@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, September 3, 2014 7:30:37 PM UTC-7, robin....@gmail.com wrote:

> > No, the quotation was not hype.
> 
> Certainly was hype. And Pascal came out well before Ada did.
> 
> >  The problems caused by missing end-comment delimiters were real.
> 
> Really?

Yes, really.  I have been programming for 37 years and have run into those problems.  I haven't always had IDE's to help me.
  
 
> > If you're thinking that this shouldn't be a problem because of "live parsing 
> > editors", you're right--in 2014.
> 
> They were around from at least by the 1990s.

Which still proves my point.  I'm having trouble understanding why you're still arguing this, unless you perhaps have a different definition of the term "hype" than the rest of us do.  "Hype" isn't simply anything that's not true.  It refers to something that was said with the intent to deceive or exaggerate.  And you claimed that the statement in the Rationale, about the dangers posed by omitting a closing delimiter, was "hype", which means you're claiming that the person who wrote it, in the early 1980's, was exaggerating.  And you are basing this on the fact that we have "live parsing editors" which can show you which text is comments--editors which you say came out by the 1990's, AFTER THE QUOTE WAS WRITTEN.  Isn't it reasonable to suppose that before those editors came out, the dangers were real?  And in my experience, they are real because they have happened, when one of those editors was not or is not available.

So far, you have failed to make sense, but perhaps you could help us understand what you're saying if you explain it better.  (And I normally don't get this worked up, but by calling a quote "hype" you have impugned the quote's author unjustly, and that kind of thing gets me a little riled.)

                               -- Adam