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From: bs@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: "//" for comments (was: Correction)
Summary: borrowed from BCPL
Message-ID: <7608@alice.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 88 01:30:27 GMT
References: <11075@brl-adm.ARPA> <145@snark.UUCP> <146@snark.UUCP> <2194@haddock.ISC.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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The C++ // comments were indeed borrowed from BCPL.
Proper acknowledgements can be found in my book.
I wrote a lot of BCPL at some time.