[TUHS] Bourne shell and comments

Ron Natalie ron at ronnatalie.com
Wed Apr 19 06:51:40 AEST 2017


I believe the Berkeley #! magic number came first.   The C Shell already
used this as a comment, the Bourne shells grudgingly followed.

I still remember using : for a comment in the V6 shell.   Was also the label
for goto.





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