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I find it strange that you refer to comments starting with # as Ruby-style comments.
by coyul 15y ago
I find it strange that you refer to comments starting with # as Ruby-style comments.
- Hovertruck 15y agoOr any other language that denotes comments with an octothorpe, but I opted for brevity.
- chc 15y agoI'm pretty sure Ruby is bigger than Perl and sh put together now, at least in mindshare.
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- mark_story 15y agopython and PHP also support # for making comments. It could be argued that python has just as much if not more mindshare than ruby. :)
- chc 15y agoI agree. I think "Python-style comments" would be just as reasonable a term. My impression was that the comment I was responding to was objecting on historical grounds, since Ruby and Python borrowed that comment style from Perl, which in turn borrowed it from shell scripts.