At work the other day someone asked for comments on a piece of code. I gave them:
/* C / C++ */
// C++, Java
{ Pascal }
C Fortran (in first column)
# most scripting languages
; assembler (various)
% some .rc files (e.g. SLRN)
" VIM files
' Visual Basic
rem DOS batch
dnl M4 (autoconf and the like)
-- SGML / XML DTD (within a tag) --
<!-- XML / HTML -->
I think I ran out at that point, having forgotten how to do them in Lisp and COBOL and VMS DCL...
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/* C / C++ */ // C++, Java { Pascal } C Fortran (in first column) # most scripting languages ; assembler (various) % some .rc files (e.g. SLRN) " VIM files ' Visual Basic rem DOS batch dnl M4 (autoconf and the like) -- SGML / XML DTD (within a tag) -- <!-- XML / HTML -->I think I ran out at that point, having forgotten how to do them in Lisp and COBOL and VMS DCL...