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RE: Block Commenting

• Posted by Peter Willems <peter at integratedmoves.com> Aug 03, 2003
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Andy Serpa wrote:
> No one would force you to use block comments if you don't like them.  
> Line-comments would still exist, just like now.

    I'll put it another way: the fact that block comments are
    not supported is no problem for me 

    Of course, if it would be supported it would not be a problem
    as well. I just wanted to state my view in accordance with
    Robert's statement.

> It could be handled a number of different ways, I suppose. But any 
> performance loss would only occur on start-up when loading in the file, 
> and would be neglible I would think.

    I'm building (large) custom applications for customers on a
    daily basis, believe me that performance is *always* an issue.

> Since it is a pre-processing step, 
> it wouldn't effect the speed of the program at all.  It would speed up 
> YOUR performance though by allowing you to code faster, don't forget 
> that.
 
    My pov at this is formed because lately I've reviewed several
    programming languages in search of a new development platform
    for my company. The resulting conclusion is that most languages
    that are of interest need 10 Mb or more of virtual machine,
    interpreter or other supporting files to be able to run just
    a simple program. The way I see it is that this is the result of
    decisions to implement as much stuff as discussed here into the
    core support files of a language, making it bloated and in need
    of a fairly fast machine to have usable performance.
    Try to run a Python based program and you know what I mean.
    As a language, Python is quite cool and supports everything
    you are talking about and much more, but clearly at a price.

    I'm not against progress, but performance-wise the fastest 
    languages are the ones with a small command set and specific
    functionality added as auxiliary functions on a per-project
    basis.

Hans Peter Willems