• Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 hours ago

      Nested comments. RFC822 had a whole bunch of bad ideas in it, but nobody thought much of it at the time. Most programming languages don’t even do nested comments, because they want to filter them out with a simple lexer before the grammar ever sees it.