diff --git a/recursiveDescentParsers/cplusplus/interpreter/Makefile b/recursiveDescentParsers/cplusplus/interpreter/Makefile
index f41bbbcabdec7d4c41c9818ea1c74078aecb8ac2..98044686cf2b045bee99db281ece1b9352f60313 100644
--- a/recursiveDescentParsers/cplusplus/interpreter/Makefile
+++ b/recursiveDescentParsers/cplusplus/interpreter/Makefile
@@ -35,9 +35,9 @@ clean:
 	$(RM) -v *~ *.o $(PROGS) tmp.txt
 
 test: $(PROGS) $(TESTFILES)
-	# "Running interpreter in test mode\n"
+	# Running interpreter in test mode
 	-./interpreter testInput.txt 2>&1 >tmp.txt
-	# "Checking output -- no news is good news!\n"
+	# Checking output -- no news is good news!
 	diff testOutput.txt tmp.txt
 	-rm tmp.txt