Few mixed things

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Derek Parnell" <derek at psych.ward> wrote in message 
news:hn975kl8v6wa.bjme1g5z2jj3$.dlg at 40tude.net...
> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:55:03 +0000 (UTC), BCS wrote:
>
>> /**/ has well defined semantics,
>
> ... in the C programming language ...
>
>> changing it will cause problems that replacing it will not.
>
> The "well defined semantics" are not god-given axioms, or to rephrase it,
> because something is 'thus' in C does not mean that it must also be 'thus'
> in any other programming language.
>
> For something to be in a programming language, it needs to be justified on
> its own terms rather than only using precedent as its rationale to exist.
>

I agree with you on this, however I think what they meant was that (unless 
I'm mistaken) /**/ also behaves the same way in every other language that 
actually uses /**/ for comments.