On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 5:51 PM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:

> Funny; I recall ALGOL using "comment ... ;" or was that ALGOLW (which I
> loved using; I wish I still had my ALGOLW book)?
>
Algol-W   From, the Sites book, (Page 10, Section 1 'Terminology)  [Dave,
I'll send you the PDF offline].

The symbol *comment* followed by any sequence of characters not -containing
semicolons, followed by a semicolon, is called a *comment*. A comment has
no effect on the meaning of a program, and is ignored during execution of
the program.