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From: leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re^2: Why nested comments not allowed?
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Date: 21 Feb 90 13:58:17 GMT
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schaut@cat9.cs.wisc.edu (Rick Schaut) writes:
> ...        In short, a compiler for a language that doesn't allow nested
>comments is _much_ faster than a compiler for a language that allows them.

That is probably true ... but if I remember correctly TC allows you to use 
nested comments (If you tell it to let you) ... and yet TC is not all that slow.


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