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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: What's wrong with C++?
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:45:17 -0800
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On 2/19/2011 2:36 PM, Anonymous wrote:

>> That is why I do not like Fortran choice of a comment line, which is "!"
>

> Actually the FORTRAN (all CAPS) choice of a comment line is "C" not "!"!
>
>> I have no idea who selected ! for comment in fortran, I think it was
>> bad choice, IMNSHO.
>
> You missed the first 40 years of FORTRAN development. I have no idea if/when
> anybody started using "!" but I never saw it.
>

It is Fortran, not FORTRAN.

You mean you did not look at any fortran code for the last 21 years?

"!" is the fortran comment since fortran 1990.  C comment is long dead.

May be you should try to look at some Fortran code? :)

An example,

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fortran-Comments.html

"Fortran mode can also handle the Fortran 90 comment syntax where comments start with �!� and can follow other text."

http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/COURSES/cs201/NOTES/chap01/comment.html

> Anyway it's alot of fun to argue about C/C++ operators like == when C/C++
> butchers other operators. == is the smallest of its problems.
>

--Nasser