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A lot of popular non-shell languages use #, e.g. Ruby, Python, PHP.

• pjmlp 12y ago
  Scripting languages, usually coupled with shell programming.
  • dbaupp 12y ago
    That's not really a sensible association. A lot of work is done with those languages where shells are either not used at all, or are just a development tool (e.g. could be replaced by editor features). It seems rather strange to try to forcibly connect Python/Ruby/... and sh, rather than just grouping as languages that happen to share the # for comments. (Maybe they adopted it from shells originally, but the languages definitely stand on their own now.)
    • pjmlp 12y ago
      I never used them for anything else other than scripts on steroids, as I care for application performance. Well, PHP is forced upon me by my ISP and I never bothered to change.