Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!netnews!mjd From: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Mark-Jason Dominus) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (Annotated Edition) Message-ID: Date: 5 Nov 90 21:27:01 GMT References: <1990Nov4.021618.24681@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Followup-To: talk.rumors Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 17 In-reply-to: tom@ssd.csd.harris.com's message of 5 Nov 90 12:22:20 GMT In article tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley) writes: >> [Henry Spencer says to make your identifiers unique in >> the first six characters.] > 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. Heh. You know, I heard somewhere that shops with old, crufty linkers pay their consulting fees in money that is just as green as that paid out by shops with new, shiny linkers. Just a rumor, you understand. -- In some sense a stochastic process can do better; at least it has a chance. Mark-Jason Dominus mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu