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From: mike@ducky.net (Mike Haertel)
Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada?
Date: 1997/04/26
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In article <5jr4ak$dsm@bcrkh13.bnr.ca>, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>It's interesting that one of the requirements is a Nudds: that is, that the
>language support comments that are delimited by a special character (or
>character pair) and terminated at the end of the line.  This is utterly a
>religious issue.

That's not a religious issue, there's an actual reliability issue.
If a language has Pascal/PL1/C style comments, it's easy to accidently
comment out large blocks of code by forgetting a comment close
delimiter.  I've done it in C.  Often the result will still compile,
but the resulting program will crash in mysterious ways.  With
comment-to-end-of-line that risk doesn't exist.