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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) We aim to amuse. (...) Hmm. Makes a little more sense now. (...) The trouble is that they will still ask how the "elite" people get their special powers to do formatting, and whine when their malformed efforts (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I don't quite grok. By COBOL-style comments do you mean something in column 1 affecting the rest of the line? And if so, why do you feel it is bad to mix that with paired (open/close) constructs? Take C++ for example -- it offers two types of (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... >In lugnet.admin.general, Chris Moseley writes: >> But regardless, please don't mix meta types. I suppose it's worth noting that I'm very unlikely to be a user of this language, because I don't virtually emote (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ahh, I see...you're thinking in actual terms of a programming language. But this is a simple text-formatting thing, not a programming language. But even in terms of programming languages: much success can be had with a preprocessor which uses (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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