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What language is this?  Is it a BASIC dialect?

I just added language specific formatters, so doing
  <pre class="prettyprint lang-sh">
                          ^^^^^^^------- specifies language to use
should address this problem by using a shell script formatter that recognizes #
comments but not // or /* comments.

A BASIC dialect?  Dude, it's Ruby!

Your solution sounds grand.  I'll take a look when I get a chance.  Thanks!

Oh ok.  I thought Ruby looked more perly.  I'll have to learn it one of these 
days.

Figure out whether ruby allows codepoint 8221 as a quoting character or whether 
this
is a smart-quotes issue.

This looks like a smart quotes issue.

Passing the program
  print(”hello world”)
, where ” is the smart close quote codepoint 8221/0x201D, to
  ruby -Ku
produces the following error messages
  -:1: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
  -:1: undefined local variable or method `world”' for main:Object (NameError)

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