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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: comment token mistake
Message-ID: <1521@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 1 May 89 20:07:13 GMT
References: <2423@solo5.cs.vu.nl> <2722@buengc.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Perhaps it was just theirs-by-fiat, having fallen from an earlier
>incarnation of the language ("B", "C--", I dunno.), or perhaps it was
>a sarcastic comment (PUN!!) on the `(*' stuff that Pascal was shedding.

Or maybe they just picked it up from PL/I.