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From: w-edwinh@microsoft.UUCP (Edwin Hoogerbeets)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Manx 4.9b BETA
Message-ID: <9145@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 89 21:04:44 GMT
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Reply-To: w-edwinh@microsoft.UUCP (Edwin Hoogerbeets)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <3057@hub.UUCP> dougp@voodoo.ucsb.edu writes:
>Did Manx add any non ANSI extentions? If so, what are they? 

I'm told they did. Full ANSI compatibility. (corrections?)

>Specificly did they add a single line comment operand (like
>//)?

Those are not in the ANSI standard, but a carry over from BCPL. 
(shriek - sorry, I didn't mean to use such nasty language ;-)
It was re-introduced by C++, and many compiler writers have since 
re-introduced it into C. (like Microsoft)

Edwin