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From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.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 10:24:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2NhDGjGqOEZH0EDGf6cHHOWRvC0tLy40QNEkf9ETxyj7A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2001070936580.40155@aneurin.horsfall.org>

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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.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-07 15:25 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 [this message]
2020-01-07 22:13     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-07 22:26   ` Bakul Shah
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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