Why are Nested Comments forbidden?

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Published on 2010-06-03T19:41:37Z Indexed on 2010/06/03 19:44 UTC
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Why are nested comments forbidden in C++, Java inspite of the fact that nested comments are useful, neat, and elegant and can be used to comment out statements that have comments?

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