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Task/Comments/360-Assembly/comments.360

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+* An asterisk in column one denotes a comment line
+* Comments may also follow any syntactically complete instruction:
+ NOP This is a comment (after a NOP instruction)
+* Comments after instructions with omitted operands require a comma ","
+ END , Comment (without comma, "Comment" assumed an operand of "END")

Task/Comments/ACL2/comments.acl2

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+; Single line comment
+#| Multi-line
+comment |#

Task/Comments/Ada/comments.ada

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+-- All Ada comments begin with "--" and extend to the end of the line

Task/Comments/Befunge/comments-1.bf

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+& read a number 2+ add two .@ display result and exit
+  ^- inline comments -^     <-^- other comments

Task/Comments/C/comments-1.c

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+/* This is a comment. */
+/* So is this
+   multiline comment.
+ */

Task/Comments/Clojure/comments-1.clj

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+;; This is a comment
+(defn foo []
+  123) ; also a comment

Task/Comments/Forth/comments-1.fth

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+\ The backslash skips everything else on the line
+( The left paren skips everything up to the next right paren on the same line)

Task/Comments/Fortran/comments-1.f

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+C     This would be some kind of comment
+C     Usually one would avoid columns 2-6 even in a comment.

Task/Comments/Java/comments-1.java

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+/* This is a comment */

Task/Comments/LaTeX/comments-1.tex

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+% This is a comment

Task/Comments/Lua/comments-1.lua

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+-- A single line comment
+
+--[[A multi-line
+    comment --]]

Task/Comments/PHP/comments-1.php

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+# this is commented
+// this is commented

Task/Comments/Perl/comments-1.pl

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+# this is commented

Task/Comments/Prolog/comments-1.pro

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+% this is a single-line comment that extends to the end of the line

Task/Comments/Python/comments-1.py

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+"""Un-assigned strings in triple-quotes might be used
+   as multi-line comments
+"""
+
+'''
+   "triple quoted strings" can be delimited by either 'single' or "double" quote marks; and they can contain mixtures
+   of other quote marks without any need to \escape\ them using any special characters.  They also may span multiple
+   lines without special escape characters.
+'''

Task/Comments/REXX/comments-1.rexx

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+/*REXX program to demonstrate various uses and types of comments. */
+
+/* everything between a "climbstar" and a "starclimb" (exclusive of literals) is
+   a comment.
+                         climbstar =  /*   [slash-asterisk]
+                         starclimb =  */   [asterisk-slash]
+
+            /* this is a nested comment, by gum! */
+            /*so is this*/
+
+Also, REXX comments can span multiple records.
+
+There can be no intervening character between the slash and asterisk  (or
+the asterisk and slash).  These two joined characters cannot be separated
+via a continued line, as in the manner of:
+
+       say 'If I were two─faced,' ,
+           'would I be wearing this one?' ,
+           '      --- Abraham Lincoln'
+
+Here come's the thingy that ends this REXX comment. ───┐
+                                                       │
+                                                       │
+                                                       ↓
+
+                                                       */
+
+    hour = 12       /*high noon                   */
+midnight = 00       /*first hour of the day       */
+   suits = 1234     /*card suits:   ♥  ♦  ♣  ♠    */
+
+hutchHdr = '/*'
+hutchEnd = "*/"
+
+    /* the previous two "hutch" assignments aren't
+       the start  nor  the end of a REXX comment. */
+
+  x=1000000 **   /*¡big power!*/   1000
+
+/*not a real good place for a comment (above),
+  but essentially, a REXX comment can be
+  anywhere whitespace is allowed.            */

Task/Comments/Tcl/comments-1.tcl

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+# comment on a line by itself. The next is a command by itself:
+set var1 $value1
+set var2 $value2 ; # comment that follows a line of code