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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: comment token mistake
Message-ID: <2746@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 2 May 89 09:51:36 GMT
References: <2423@solo5.cs.vu.nl> <2722@buengc.BU.EDU> <1521@auspex.auspex.com>
Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
Followup-To: comp.lang.c
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In article <1521@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>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.

Okay, okay, okay, okayokayokay  OOOKAAAYYY!!!

Yeah.  I remember now.  It was PL/I.  (sweat-shivver-grimace)...

				--Blair
				  /* I thought those dark days were
				     over... but now the forces of
				     evil return to batter my soul... */"