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> On Jan 6, 2020, at 2:51 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
>=20
> =EF=BB=BFOn Mon, 6 Jan 2020, Brian Walden wrote:
>=20
>> Also before you say wait! ALGOL uses # as comment and is older than Kerni=
ghan' ratfor(1). [...]
>=20
> Funny; I recall ALGOL using "comment ... ;" or was that ALGOLW (which I lo=
ved using; I wish I still had my ALGOLW book)?

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