Sed wins! It IS possible to strip C comments with 1 sed command!

[Wm. E. Davidsen Jr]

  Once upon a time someone gave me a program written in lex and C which
(a) removed all comments, (b) replaced every symbol with a (non-keyword)
token from /usr/dict/words, and (c) formatted the source into N column
lines, refraining only from breaking strings over a line (strings which
*were* broken over lines became single l_o_n_g lines).

  It was written when a client of the author found it was cheaper to get
the source by lawsuit than to pay for it.

  I have sent a note to the last address I have for the original author
asking permission to post it here.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu at crd.GE.COM)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me