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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Comments?
Date: 1999/01/17
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"Gold Rush Graphics" <goldrushgraphics@erols.com> writes:

> 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?

The reason Ada avoided a comment terminator is so that you can't
accidently comment-out any code.  

If you're using Pascal or C, then be sure to use an editor that supports
color-coding.  You have to make it obvious which part of your code is
comment, and which is not.