Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Bug in Unix System V C compiler Message-ID: <671@opus.UUCP> Date: Sat, 4-Aug-84 03:01:55 EDT Article-I.D.: opus.671 Posted: Sat Aug 4 03:01:55 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 6-Aug-84 00:44:51 EDT References: <2978@utah-cs.UUCP> <3726@brl-tgr.ARPA> <806@ut-ngp.UUCP> Organization: NBI, Boulder Lines: 27 > > And of course you turkeys are careful to write code that > > uses long identifiers so that porting it to non-BSD UNIXes > > is much more work than it had to be. Very professional. > <<<>>> > Doug, I for one am SICK AND GODDAMN TIRED of your kneejerk Berkeley phobia! > > Net.unix-wizards should be for the discussion of UNIX problems and solutions > NOT for axe-grinding and personal insults... Go back and read the whole sequence. Then just back off. Doug was responding to some fool posting that claimed that the System V C compiler had a bug because it didn't discriminate between two overly-long identifiers. Since the poster of THAT article labeled his coding problem as a compiler bug, and compounded it by using "godamnid1" as the identifier which illustrated it, it had already gone from a technical matter to a flame when Doug shot back. I don't find the treatment of long identifiers to be particularly nice, but that's the way the language works right now and it gets tired to see people keep flaming about the same old problems. Moreover, I'm neither a Berkeleyphobe nor a Berkeleyphile, but it's getting pretty old to see such a cheap shot anytime someone like Doug tries to advocate software which is portable to the extent of not using every little feature and featurette that Berkeley tossed in. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been.