9 Feb
2017
9 Feb
'17
8:28 a.m.
Those were JCL COMMANDS??? Damn! I thought they were comments. No wonder
nothing ever worked.
--Marc
On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Paul McJones <paul(a)mcjones.org> wrote:
I'm fairly certain it was originally in BCPL.
You could just drop a note to Bjarne Stroustrup and ask. :-)
On page 44 of _The Design and Evolution of C++_ (Addison-Wesley, 1994),
Stroustrup says:
“However, only C, Simula, Algol68, an in one case BCPL left noticeable
traces in C++ as released in 1985. Simula gave classes, Algol68 operating
overloading, references, and the ability to declare variables anywhere in a
block, and BCPL gave // comments.”
He says a bit more about // comments on page 93, including an example of
how they introduced an incompatibility with C.