Multi-line comments considered harmful
December 31, 2010
Recently on the ruby-core mailing list, someone asked why Ruby doesn’t have multi-line comments. I did a few searches, and didn’t find much discussion of the evils of multi-line comments. I thought it was common knowledge that they were a bad thing and a historical mistake made by Kernighan and Ritchie, but apparently not. So, [...]
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