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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments?
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 08:19:33 -0700
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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>
>> The original comment delimiters in C were copied from PL/I:  everything
>
> Cite?

Seen in the B language manual:

    Comments are delimited as in PL/I by /* and */.

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/kbman.html

Note that this style of commenting was not present in
B's precursor language, BCPL.