9 Jan
2020
9 Jan
'20
4:25 a.m.
On 8 Jan 2020, at 16:02, Clem Cole
<clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
below... -- warning veering a little from pure UNIX history, but trying to clarify what
I can and then moving to COFF for follow up.
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 12:23 AM Brian Walden <tuhs(a)cuzuco.com
<mailto:tuhs@cuzuco.com>> wrote:
....
- CMU's ALGOL68S from 1978 list all these ways --
co comment
comment comment
pr pragmat
pragmat pragmat
I remember that a pragma (at least in Algol68R (ICL 1900
series) and I would need to reread the formal definition to see if it was general) was not
a comment.
It was a note to the compiler - which could choose to use it or lose it.
# (comment symbol) comment
:: (pragmat symbol) pragmat
(its for UNIX v6 or v7 so not surprising # is a comment)
http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/manual/a68s.txt/view
<http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/manual/a68s.txt/view>