[TUHS] # (was Re: sh: cmd | >file)
Bakul Shah
bakul at bitblocks.com
Wed Jan 8 08:26:52 AEST 2020
> On Jan 6, 2020, at 2:51 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, Brian Walden wrote:
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>> Also before you say wait! ALGOL uses # as comment and is older than Kernighan' ratfor(1). [...]
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> Funny; I recall ALGOL using "comment ... ;" or was that ALGOLW (which I loved using; I wish I still had my ALGOLW book)?
In Algol68 # ... # is one of the forms for block comments!
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