From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.236.112.6 with SMTP id x6mr2653385yhg.42.1409843524127; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 08:12:04 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.115.74 with SMTP id jm10mr94314igb.12.1409843523995; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 08:12:03 -0700 (PDT) Path: border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!dc16no1126793qab.1!news-out.google.com!aw9ni11592igc.0!nntp.google.com!uq10no9410859igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 08:12:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5489ed0e-4298-42bd-a06d-b5ec10b4c163@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=KSa2aQoAAACOxnC0usBJYX8NE3x3a1Xq NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 References: <8fd27434-43c2-4bd1-b72b-dd7a0ef5af75@googlegroups.com> <50c9cfe2-caa7-4d0d-956e-6c7e99023f46@googlegroups.com> <5489ed0e-4298-42bd-a06d-b5ec10b4c163@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Is there a way to do large block of source code comments From: Adam Beneschan Injection-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 15:12:04 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:188865 Date: 2014-09-04T08:12:03-07:00 List-Id: On Wednesday, September 3, 2014 7:30:37 PM UTC-7, robin....@gmail.com wrote= : > > No, the quotation was not hype. >=20 > Certainly was hype. And Pascal came out well before Ada did. >=20 > > The problems caused by missing end-comment delimiters were real. >=20 > 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. =20 =20 > > If you're thinking that this shouldn't be a problem because of "live pa= rsing=20 > > editors", you're right--in 2014. >=20 > They were around from at least by the 1990s. Which still proves my point. I'm having trouble understanding why you're s= till arguing this, unless you perhaps have a different definition of the te= rm "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 e= xaggerate. 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 exaggera= ting. And you are basing this on the fact that we have "live parsing edito= rs" which can show you which text is comments--editors which you say came o= ut by the 1990's, AFTER THE QUOTE WAS WRITTEN. Isn't it reasonable to supp= ose that before those editors came out, the dangers were real? And in my e= xperience, they are real because they have happened, when one of those edit= ors was not or is not available. So far, you have failed to make sense, but perhaps you could help us unders= tand what you're saying if you explain it better. (And I normally don't ge= t 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