This one bit me today

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <2651 at hub.UUCP> dougp at voodoo.ucsb.edu writes:
-In article <11368 at smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes...
->No, to take an analogy:  I wouldn't want to encourage smoking, because it's
->not healthy, even though so long as it's done in private I wouldn't outlaw
->it either.  Supporting nested comments in C constitutes active encouragement
->of an unhealthy practice, and I recommend against compiler vendors doing it.

-So you recomend that compiler vendors make no inovations?

Don't put words into my mouth.  I explained previously why the SPECIFIC
"innovation" of nested comments was unhealthy.