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OCR: 686 SECTION A CHAPTER Do computer programs contain any special documentation? Anyone who uses computers familiar with program documentation in the TERMINOLOGY NOTE form of user manuals and help files. Programmers also insert documenta- Remarks are sometimes tion called remarks into the program code Remarks are identified by lan- called comments and the guage- specific symbols, such as /I in Java, or keywords, such as Rem ir process of adding remarks BASIC sometimes referred Remarks are useful for programmers who want to understand how a pro- as commenting the code gram works before modifying For example suppose you are assigned to make some modifications to a 50 ,000-line program that calculates income tax Your task would be simplified f the original progr rammer included remarks that iden ...