Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!gatech!uflorida!travis!tom From: tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (Annotated Edition) Message-ID: Date: 5 Nov 90 12:22:20 GMT References: <1990Nov4.021618.24681@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: news@travis.csd.harris.com Organization: Harris Computer Systems Division Lines: 30 In-reply-to: henry@zoo.toronto.edu's message of 4 Nov 90 02:16:18 GMT >>>>> Regarding The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (Annotated Edition); henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) adds: henry> Thy external identifiers shall be unique in the first six characters, henry> though this harsh discipline be irksome and the years of its henry> necessity stretch before thee seemingly without end, lest thou tear henry> thy hair out and go mad on that fateful day when thou desirest to henry> make thy program run on an old system. henry> Though some hasty zealots cry ``not so; the Millenium is come, and henry> this saying is obsolete and no longer need be supported'', verily henry> there be many, many ancient systems in the world, and it is the henry> decree of the dreaded god Murphy that thy next employment just might henry> be on one. While thou sleepest, he plotteth against thee. Awake and henry> take care. Not true. I have freedom of choice. I can refuse to work on systems so brain dead they only support 6 character externals, and I urge all other programmers to make the same choice. Boycott stupid linkers! Death to the wielders of stone knives and bearskins! Computers should be useful tools, not millstones around the necks of programmers. -- ====================================================================== domain: tahorsley@csd.harris.com USMail: Tom Horsley uucp: ...!uunet!hcx1!tahorsley 511 Kingbird Circle Delray Beach, FL 33444 +==== Censorship is the only form of Obscenity ======================+ | (Wait, I forgot government tobacco subsidies...) | +====================================================================+