On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 18:45:58 -0600, Edward Gould wrote > >Sorry every utilitty has its own rules, just like languages (e.g. (no GOTO in >ALC but COBOL has one) >ALC has a syntax a * in column 1 with a blank tells the assembler its a >comment. I “think” in COBOL a comment is a C in column 6) (don’t remember its >been years since I have looked at a COBOL program. >Get over it there are rules all over the place. >> There are good rules and there are harmful rules. It matters little *how* one codes a comment. It matters much that there is no way to code a comment. You cited a couple languages that have different comment conventions. Add JCL, Rexx, POSIX Shell script, ... for other comment conventions. All would be worse off if, like utility control files, they had no way to code comments.
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