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by fortythirteen 3175 days ago
He argued that future programming languages should get rid of them completely.
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Yes, but based on an subjective judgment. I am the author of the blog post, and I tried to do my utmost to emphasize that my judgment here is highly subjective, using phrases such as "for my own pedantic notion of correctness", and "I cannot in good faith claim that [problems with block comments] occur all that often in practice". I try to make it clear that I'm not surprised, offended, or annoyed that most languages support block comments.

How do you think I should have put my words, to make it clear that my opinion here is not intended as objective fact, but merely a subjective take on a language design question?

* Don't state that other people should change years of convention to meet "your pedantic notion of correctness".

* Center your blog post around "why I don't like block comments" and not "why block comments are bad".