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ben0x539 on July 24, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Code behaving differently in C90, C99, C11, C++98,...

no version of C++ ever added new comment syntax that a previous version of C++ didnt have, tho

Someone on July 24, 2016 [–]

Nitpick: as far as I can tell that's _almost_ correct.

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/c_plus_plus/ind... leads me to http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/c_plus_plus/cfr..., which shows that the first external C++ release didn't have // comments.

The first commercial release had, though (http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/c_plus_plus/cfr...)

ben0x539 on July 24, 2016 | [–]

Darn. :P

I was only thinking of the standardized ones, but you're correct, of course!

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