Rem

I used to think that no one had actually used Rem for comments since 1985. Recently, however, I encountered a long piece of complex Basic code that looked strangely like an MS-DOS batch file. All the comments were preceded by Rem. Please don�t do this. Basic is probably the only computer language ever invented that has a keyword to initiate comments. In the last version of this book, I suggested that if everyone would pretend that Rem doesn�t exist, maybe Microsoft would remove it in the next version. Not only did they not remove it, they carried the wretched thing over to Visual Basic, Scripting Edition. Yuck!