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\begin //

[from the LaTeX command] With \end, used humorously in writing to indicate a context or to remark on the surrounded text. For example:

\begin{flame}
Predicate logic is the only good programming
language.  Anyone who would use anything else
is an idiot.  Also, all computers should be
tredecimal instead of binary.
\end{flame}

The Scribe users at CMU and elsewhere used to use @Begin/@End in an identical way (LaTeX was built to resemble Scribe). On Usenet, this construct would more frequently be rendered as <FLAME ON> and <FLAME OFF>, or #ifdef FLAME and #endif FLAME. Recently the pseudo-HTML form <flame> ... </flame> has become popular.

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