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====Fortran====

The following fixed-form [[Fortran IV]] code fragment shows that comment syntax is column-oriented. A letter <code>C</code> in the first column causes the entire line to be treated as a comment. In [[Fortran 77]], an asterisk in column 1 also indicates a comment.

<syntaxhighlight lang="fortranfixed">

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end program

</syntaxhighlight>

Free-form Fortran, also introduced with Fortran 90, only supports this latter style of comment.

====MATLAB====