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From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] # (was Re: sh: cmd | >file)
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 14:26:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8E00CE76-B57C-4077-8768-63DF27BBE246@bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2001070936580.40155@aneurin.horsfall.org>

> On Jan 6, 2020, at 2:51 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, Brian Walden wrote:
> 
>> 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)?

In Algol68  # ... # is one of the forms for block comments!

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-07 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-06  6:30 Brian Walden
2020-01-06 22:50 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-07  0:39   ` Warner Losh
2020-01-08  2:44     ` Greg A. Woods
2020-01-07 15:24   ` Clem Cole
2020-01-07 22:13     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-07 22:26   ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2020-01-07 22:56     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-08  5:20 Brian Walden
2020-01-08  6:25 ` Bakul Shah

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