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From: ian@ic-cs.UUCP (Ian W. Moor)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Standardization questions --
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Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 12:04:37 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  2 12:04:37 1984
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>From: sambo@ukma.UUCP (Samuel A. Figueroa)
>
>Perhaps instead of using '##' to indicate that the rest of the line is a
>comment (since, as someone pointed out, this might conflict with at least
>one preprocessor), '//' could be used.  The preprocessor already recognizes
>'/*', so adding recognition of '//' might not be too unreasonable.

Wait a minute ! What other wondeful language (?) uses /* and // ?
All we need now is DD and EXEC statements :-)
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  Ian W. Moor			{mcvax,vax135}!ukc!west44!ic-cs!im
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