Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments?

From	cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments?
Date	2024-03-22 23:16 +0000
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In article <86edc2l7lw.fsf@linuxsc.com>,
Tim Rentsch  <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> wrote:
>cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:
>
>> In article <86r0g3liii.fsf@linuxsc.com>,
>> Tim Rentsch  <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> It would be appropriate to qualify this statement with some kind
>> of timeframe as BCPL is still used (albeit not widely, I assume).
>
>The PL/I style of commenting was not present in BCPL at the time B
>was being defined.

Correct.

	- Dan C.

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Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-21 06:19 +0000
  Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-03-21 09:39 +0000
  Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2024-03-21 13:37 +0200
    Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-21 21:16 +0000
      Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-03-22 10:02 +0100
        Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2024-03-22 16:13 +0000
        Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-23 02:58 +0000
          Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-03-22 21:15 -0700
            Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-23 04:44 +0000
          Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-03-23 16:24 +0100
            Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2024-03-23 18:34 +0000
  Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-03-21 14:16 +0000
    Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-03-21 08:19 -0700
      Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2024-03-21 17:58 +0000
        Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-03-22 06:27 -0700
          Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2024-03-22 23:16 +0000
  Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2024-03-21 14:19 +0000
  Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-03-21 16:20 +0100
    Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2024-03-21 16:32 +0000
      Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-03-21 12:23 -0700
        Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2024-03-21 19:41 +0000
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            Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2024-03-21 19:54 +0000
            Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-21 21:18 +0000
              Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-03-21 15:50 -0700
        Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-03-21 20:19 +0000
          Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> - 2024-03-21 20:35 +0000
            Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? paul@paulglover.net.invalid - 2024-04-26 22:41 +0000
        Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> - 2024-03-21 20:22 +0000
          Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-03-21 15:41 -0700
        Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2024-03-22 12:20 -0400
          Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-03-22 09:33 -0700
          Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-22 23:42 +0000
      Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-03-22 10:09 +0100
  Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? fir <fir@grunge.pl> - 2024-03-21 19:46 +0100
    Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-21 21:14 +0000
  Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2024-03-22 22:50 +0000
  Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2024-04-23 16:13 -0400
    Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-04-24 07:49 +0000
    Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2024-04-24 12:36 +0000
      Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll> - 2024-04-24 21:41 +0200
        Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2024-04-25 03:48 +0000
      Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2024-04-25 10:14 -0400
        Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2024-04-25 22:10 +0000
          Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-04-25 19:33 -0700
          Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2024-04-25 22:44 -0400
  Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2024-04-23 21:06 +0000
    Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> - 2024-04-23 19:25 -0400
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      Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments? Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2024-04-24 00:58 +0000
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