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* ''10-Nov-2008:'' I was attempting to add more detail for general readers, by adding phrases about the parallel to English--with the commentary notation. Also, the issues about unclosed-comments and nested-comments (comments within commented-out code) are major aspects of comment-syntax design. Noting the "parsing of the language as a [[context-free grammar]]" is a brief note emphasizing that the language design is very much concerned with the compiler. There are also several other aspects that I omitted for brevity; however, I think expanding (not reducing) the text would be a better avenue: adding a whole article section about Ada comment syntax and its impact, where readers would be expecting several sentences about the use of comments. I am thankful for the above analysis: without that suggestion to use fewer words, I might never have realized that many more words were needed. It can be so easy to view other people's concerns as "vacuous" when people forget about viewpoints of beginners or laymen. I have worked on clarifying many articles that people had labeled as "too technical" and needed more basic details for general readers. However, the best approach might be to write an intro article ("[[Introduction to Ada]]") as has been done with other detailed subjects. -[[User:Wikid77|Wikid77]] ([[User talk:Wikid77|talk]]) 15:49, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
== confusing text ==
This article contains the following block of text, and I don't know precisely what it means. I suspect there is some missing punctuation. Anyone know what is trying to be said here?
The semicolon (";") is a statement terminator, so Ada avoids the very common problem where ";END" kills a Pascal compilation because ";" is only a Pascal separator, never allowed either to terminate "END;" in Pascal.
[[Special:Contributions/65.183.135.231|65.183.135.231]] ([[User talk:65.183.135.231|talk]]) 20:28, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
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