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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
Date: 28 May 2003 06:19:37 -0500
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In article <3ED49304.8D22F012@cfmu.eurocontrol.be>, Ian Wild <ian@cfmu.eurocontrol.be> writes:
> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>> 
>>...There was absolutely no poorly-designed
>> language commenting convention omitted from that paragraph !
> 
> 
> SGML.
> 
> <!-- This is a comment,
> -- but this is not.
> -- Here's another comment...
> -- ...and here's an unclosed quote eating the rest of your file
>>

I stand corrected.

I am also too lazy to look up the TECO commenting convention,
since as an experienced TECO programmer I know that comments
are counter-cultural :-)