8 Jan
2020
8 Jan
'20
4:26 a.m.
On Jan 6, 2020, at 2:51 PM, Dave Horsfall
<dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, Brian Walden wrote:
In Algol68 # ... # is one of the forms for block comments!
Also before you say wait! ALGOL uses # as comment
and is older than Kernighan' ratfor(1). [...]
Funny; I recall ALGOL using "comment ... ;" or was that ALGOLW (which I loved
using; I wish I still had my ALGOLW book)?