I have recently come across the term REM statement and wondered, is it synonymous with comment? 
What is the difference (if any) between REM statements and comments?
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REM is a statement in some older BASIC dialects, like for example in C64 BASIC. It starts a comment line. Even Visual Basic still supports it, even though the preferred syntax for comments in Microsoft dialects of BASIC is a single quote since Quick Basic.Many people in my generation made their first programming experiments in the 80s on Commodore home computers which used a BASIC interpreter as their default command shell, so the term REM Statement as a synonym for comment might still be engrained in some people. I haven't heard anyone use that term for about 20 years, though.