This one bit me today

[Norman Diamond]

In article <41019 at bu-cs.BU.EDU> austin at bucsf.bu.edu (Austin Ziegler) writes:
>In Pascal, one of the nicest features for debugging is nested comments.

Sounds like your Pascal compiler is just as badly broken as your C
compiler.  Any pseudo-compiler that reads pseudo-Pascal source but likes
nested comments is not a Pascal compiler, just as with C.
Take your choice; read the old Pascal standard or the new Extended
Pascal standard.  Comments do not nest.

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