I was thinking the same thing. It would be very odd if it had an effect on C or C++ (even more than the effect in the original article) because comments are rem

I was thinking the same thing. It would be very odd if it had an effect on C or C++ (even more than the effect in the original article) because comments are removed even before preprocessing. They do affect the __LINE__ macro though, so it is vaguely conceivable for it to have an effect on program behaviour.