Commenting is absolutely necessary when programming. It's useful to you because you won't forget what you were doing or thinking at that time. But it's expecially useful for others because they'll know how to work with your code.

Every programming language has it's own way of making comments, which can be very annoying. Never had that you were making Java comments on your HTML page? Here's a small list of some programming languages with their way of commenting. Alltough CSS, HTML and MySQL aren't real programming languages, I posted them in this list because it can be useful for webdesigners.

Take note that there could be more ways to comment your code. Just make sure you pick one universal type in all your code.

• Actionscript

  Single line comment:
  // Comments

  Multiline comment:
  /**
* Comments line one
* Comments line two
**/

• C++

  Inline comment:
  // Comments

  Single line comment:
  /* Comments */

  Multiline comment:
  /*
* Comments line one
* Comments line two
*/

• CSS

  Commenting:
  /* Comments */

• Delphi

  Single line comment:
  // Comments

  Multiline comment:
  {
Comments line one
Comments line two
}

• HTML / XHTML / XML

  Commenting:
  <!-- Comments -->

• Java

  Single line comment:
  // Comments

  Multiline comment:
  /**
* Comments line one
* Comments line two
**/

• MySQL

  Single line comment:
  -- Comments

  Multiline comment:
  --
-- Comments line one
-- Comments line two
--


• PHP

  Single line comment:
  // Comments

  Multiline comment:
  /*
# Comments line one
# Comments line two
*/

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Suru - SQL Comments   2008-03-22 02:44:14 SQL --Single Line /* Comment Line 1 Comment Line 2 */ Reply | Quote

izasdk - php comments   2009-03-11 14:28:03 the /* # Comments line one # Comments line two */ looks a little bit like you have to put the '#'s there but there is no need for this (i prefer the c-style) Just like multi-line-commenting in the previos comment And last but not least you could also use the # for a single-line-comment in php ;-) Reply | Quote

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