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Which programming languages support multiline comments?

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Which programming languages support multiline comments?

title hasMultiLineComments multiLineCommentTokens rank type appeared
Java true /* */ 0 pl 1995
JavaScript true /* */ 1 pl 1995
C true /* */ 2 pl 1972
Python true ''' 3 pl 1991
SQL true /* */ 4 queryLanguage 1974
HTML true 7 textMarkup 1991
XML true 8 dataNotation 1996
PHP true /* */ 9 pl 1995
Perl true =begin =cut 10 pl 1987
MATLAB true %{ %} 11 pl 1984
Ruby true =begin =end 12 pl 1995
C# true /* */ 13 pl 2000
MySQL true /* */ 15 queryLanguage 1995
Fortran false 16 pl 1957
CSS true /* */ 17 stylesheetLanguage 1996
R false 18 pl 1993
Go true /* */ 19 pl 2009
JSON false 20 dataNotation 2001
Swift true /* */ 22 pl 2014
Scala true /* */ 23 pl 2004
Ada false 24 pl 1980
COBOL false 25 pl 1959
Rust true /* */ 26 pl 2010
PostgreSQL true /* */ 27 queryLanguage 1986
Kotlin true /* */ 28 pl 2011
PowerShell true <# #> 30 pl 2006
Pascal true { } 31 pl 1970
Haskell true {- -} 32 pl 1990
TypeScript true /* */ 33 pl 2012
SAS true /* */ 34 pl 1976
Lua true --[[ --]] 37 pl 1993
Julia true #= =# 39 pl 2012
Prolog true /* */ 40 pl 1972
Clojure true (comment ) 41 pl 2007
Objective-C true /* */ 43 pl 1984
Scheme true #| |# 45 pl 1970
Erlang false 46 pl 1986
Mathematica true (* *) 47 pl 1988
Bash false 48 pl 1989
Elixir false 51 pl 2011
CUDA true /* */ 52 pl 2007
Dart true /* */ 53 pl 2011
Modula-2 true (* *) 55 pl 1978
Visual Basic false /* */ 57 pl 1991
Tcl false 58 pl 1988
ActionScript true /* */ 59 pl 1998
Verilog true /* */ 65 hardwareDescriptionLanguage 1984
Solidity true /* */ 66 contractLanguage 2014
Delphi true { } 68 pl 1995
F# true (* *) 71 pl 2005
Elm true {- -} 73 pl 2012
Eiffel false 74 pl 1986
Crystal false 75 pl 2014
OCaml true (* *) 76 pl 1996
Smalltalk true " 78 pl 1972
Modula-3 true (* *) 80 pl 1986
Yacc true /* */ 81 grammarLanguage 1975
D true /+ +/ 84 pl 2001
Reason true /* */ 86 pl 2016
Groovy true /* */ 87 pl 2003
CoffeeScript true ### 92 pl 2009
VHDL false 93 hardwareDescriptionLanguage 1983
OpenCL true /* */ 95 pl 2009
Nginx false 104 configFormat 2004
PostScript true 105 textMarkup 1982
WebAssembly true 113 bytecode 2015
Rexx true /* */ 118 pl 1979
ANTLR true /* */ 120 grammarLanguage 1992
Nim true #[ ]# 121 pl 2008
LaTeX false 129 textMarkup 1985
Haxe true /* */ 131 pl 2005
Chapel true /* */ 138 pl 2004
Oberon true (* *) 143 pl 1986
Applescript true (* *) 145 pl 1993
Lasso true /* */ 147 pl 1995
Protocol Buffers true /* */ 155 idl 2008
AMPL true 158 pl 1985
Tex false 160 pl 1978
PureScript true {- -} 173 pl 2013
Processing true /* */ 176 pl 2001
MIPS architecture true ### 177 isa 1985
Hack true /* */ 178 pl 2014
SVG true 182 textMarkup 2001
DOT true /* */ 187 textMarkup 2007
Coq true (* *) 189 pl 1989
Fantom true /* */ 190 pl 2005
Monkey true 191 pl 2011
Agda true 199 pl 2007
Emacs Lisp false 207 pl 1985
AutoIt true 208 pl 1999
Jison true /* */ 214 pl 2009
X10 true /* */ 227 pl 2004
Frege true {- -} 229 pl 2011
PostCSS true /* */ 232 textMarkup 2013
Io true 236 pl 2002
QML true /* */ 237 pl 2009
xBase true /* */ 240 pl 1986
Opa true /* */ 242 pl 2011
GNU Octave true 244 pl 1988
Hy true 246 pl 2013
Boo true 247 pl 2003
Ceylon true /* */ 248 pl 2011
Zephir true /* */ 249 pl 2013
Object Pascal true { } 252 pl 1986
SystemVerilog true /* */ 257 pl 2002
Pony true 265 pl 2012
Bison true /* */ 268 grammarLanguage 1985
JSON5 true /* */ 276 dataNotation 2012
Nextflow true /* */ 278 pl 2013
PL/pgSQL true 280 pl 1998
Stata true /* */ 283 pl 1985
HCL true /* */ 296 dataNotation 2014
Isabelle true (* *) 297 pl 1986
MiniD true 303 pl 2006
PL/I true /* */ 307 pl 1964
ATS true (* *) 310 pl 2013
Csound true 319 pl 1985
Lex true /* */ 322 grammarLanguage 1975
Alloy true /* */ 339 pl 1997
POV-Ray SDL true /* */ 340 pl 1991
LiveScript true /* */ 344 pl 2011
PEG.js true /* */ 371 grammarLanguage 2010
B true /* */ 375 pl 1969
Bicep true /* */ 379 jsonFormat 2020
Wolfram Language true (* *) 380 pl 1988
TLA true (* *) 382 pl 1999
Speedie true /* */ 388 pl 2022
C3 true /* */ 389 pl 2019
Twig true {# #} 394 template 2009
Less true /* */ 398 stylesheetLanguage 2009
eC true /* */ 402 pl 2004
XS true /* */ 404 pl 2002
ECL true /* */ 410 pl 2000
Classroom Object Oriented Language true (* *) 414 pl 1996
Maxima true 423 pl 1982
Transact-SQL true 433 queryLanguage 1984
Croc true 451 pl 2006
Bluespec true (* *) 455 pl 2000
UrWeb true (* *) 462 pl 2008
Ion true /* */ 465 idl 2016
Pig Latin true /* */ 486 queryLanguage 2008
JFlex true /* */ 496 grammarLanguage 2003
Xtend true /* */ 499 pl 2011
DTrace true /* */ 504 pl 2005
AspectJ true /* */ 506 pl 2001
HLSL true 512 pl 2002
janet false 513 pl 2018
PARI/GP true /* */ 516 pl 1985
XSLT true 521 xmlFormat 1998
Fortress true (* *) 524 pl 2004
muPad true 528 pl 1997
Gosu true 538 pl 2002
Ron true /* */ 548 dataNotation 2015
Closure Templates true /* */ 553 template 2009
Objective C++ true /* */ 560 pl 1993
GLSL true 561 pl 1992
Hjson true /* */ 576 dataNotation 2014
PL/M true /* */ 577 pl 1973
LilyPond true 579 pl 1996
SourcePawn true /* */ 586 pl 2014
EBNF true (* *) 602 grammarLanguage 1977
Argdown true 605 textMarkup 2014
Jule true /* */ 616 pl 2021
progsbase true 681 pl 2018
blockml true /* */ 690 textMarkup 2014
NetLinx true (* *) 708 pl 2007
JAI true 713 pl 2014
P4 true /* */ 720 pl 2014
Angelscript true /* */ 752 pl 2003
Apex true /* */ 756 pl 2007
ARexx true /* */ 757 pl 1987
DM true /* */ 769 pl 1994
Linden Scripting Language true /* */ 772 pl 2003
Cryptol true 789 pl 2014
Eclipse Command Language true /* */ 791 pl 2008
Nix true 813 packageManager 2003
Mask true /* */ 839 template 2012
COMPONENT PASCAL true (* *) 850 pl 1997
CartoCSS true /* */ 862 pl 2010
ooc true 865 pl 2009
BlitzMax true 879 pl 2014
RenderScript true /* */ 881 pl 2011
SCSS true /* */ 899 stylesheetLanguage 2006
Game Maker Language true /* */ 900 pl 1999
clay true 911 pl 2010
Edje Data Collection true /* */ 914 jsonFormat 2010
CLIST true /* */ 923 pl 1990
omega true {- -} 929 pl 2005
Slice true /* */ 936 pl 2011
Whiley true 952 pl 2009
Shen true 967 pl 2011
groff true .ig 976 textMarkup 1990
winxed true /* */ 985 pl 2009
Cycript true /* */ 1004 pl 2008
Fibonacci true (* *) 1023 pl 1991
WebIDL true /* */ 1033 idl 2012
JSON with Comments true /* */ 1053 dataNotation 2001
LoomScript true /* */ 1064 pl 2013
Sieve mail filtering language true 1067 application 2008
Type Language true /* */ 1093 pl 2013
OpenEdge ABL true 1101 pl 2006
Arden syntax true /* */ 1115 dataNotation 1992
Flow9 true /* */ 1144 pl 2010
FML true ### 1156 pl 2012
Handel-C true /* */ 1175 pl 1996
Cypher Query Language true /* */ 1207 queryLanguage 2011
Plus true /* */ 1245 pl 1976
Simple Actor Language System and Architecture true /* */ 1307 pl 2001
Mako true 1348 template 2006
Jsonnet true /* */ 1372 dataNotation 2014
Orc true {- -} 1392 pl 2004
Ligo true (* *) 1396 contractLanguage 2019
basic calculator true 1399 pl 1975
PowerQuery M true /* */ 1413 queryLanguage 2015
Boron true /* */ 1456 pl 2009
Pawn true 1507 pl 1998
GraphQL Schema Definition Language false 1510 idl 2018
HAGGIS true ''' 1533 pl 2010
kai true /* */ 1546 pl 2016
JS++ true /* */ 1550 pl 2011
DAX true /* */ 1567 queryLanguage 2009
Soy true /* */ 1615 template 2008
Sophia true /* */ 1640 contractLanguage 2018
Augeas true 1641 pl 2007
dedukti true (; ;) 1671 pl 2009
JSL true /* */ 1749 pl 1989
HuJSON true /* */ 1751 dataNotation 2019
Manchester syntax true /* */ 1808 dataNotation 2006
TAL true 1955 pl 2008
Boogie true 1998 pl 2008
Urbiscript true 2111 pl 2003
ProbeVue true /* */ 2168 pl 2008
AmbientTalk true 2323 pl 2006
Amazon Redshift true /* */ 2487 queryLanguage 2012
bioscript true /* */ 2627 pl 2019
SARL true 2839 pl 2013
boa true 2887 plzoo 2013
Spice true 2896 pl 2021
Smithy true 3349 pl 2016

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