Another newbie design question

[bambam]

Original languages were line oriented, newer languages were
block oriented.

Original languages has line comments. Newer languages had
block comments, and had line comments added back in.

So I would read that as line comments being more fundamental,
but people who used line comments got so sick of them that
they thought block comments would be a good idea.

(david)


<MartinRinehart at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1dd387df-d4c8-495d-8d58-695033cbfffc at e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> I've designed a language, Decaf, for beginners. I've got block
> comments but not multi-line strings.
>
> If you can only have one or the other, which is more helpful?
>
> Should I have both? (Make a strong argument here: my design principal
> is, "Designed by a backpacker: when in doubt, leave it out.")