Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Notes

To comment "by text" in C and C++ it makes sense to use choice "//" - then you can comment big parts of the code by "/* */" variant and will not worry about possible "*/" that will violated a sequence of the comments.

I wrote "C and C++" but it is not true because "//" - it's a comment in C++ only, not in "C". And "/* */" comments are often identified as "C-style comments"...