it’s only just occurred to me that the reason interpreted languages tend to use # for comments (as opposed to compiled languages’ more common //) is probably so that shebangs don’t have to be special cased

@monorail remember how TI-BASIC 83/84 used " for comments

@Felthry forgot about that lmao

were they real comments or were they just a string literal that didn’t do anything?

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@monorail because remember, TI-BASIC also allowed you to leave off the ending delimiter of basically anything if it complied with some arbitrary rules that no one really understood

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