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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Quality programming in c -- a rarity?
Message-ID: <594@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 15:36:01 EST
Article-I.D.: ncoast.594
Posted: Tue Feb 12 15:36:01 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 15-Feb-85 04:39:24 EST
References: <443@decwrl.UUCP> <4541@ucbvax.ARPA>
Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Organization: North Coast Programming, Cleveland
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Summary: 

> Article <4541@ucbvax.ARPA>, from kupfer@ucbvax.ARPA (Mike Kupfer)
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| > In other words, if those who write Unix utilities, surely the
| > top level of C hackers, routinely write bad code -- maybe some sort
| > of restrictions in the language are necessary to help people?
| 
| Restrictions in the language (at least the ones I've seen talked about
| in this group) aren't going to force people to comment their code, nor
| will it force them to use nice long mnemonic variable names, nor will
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IDENTIFIER TOO LONG
| it keep them from writing 10-page functions (my 3 major complaints
| about the Berkeley kernel).  

PLEASE try to remember that not all of us run Berkeley Unix, and not
all of us can *afford* to run Berkeley Unix.  Our compiler routinely
chokes on long identifiers in Berzerker programs.

Long is OK, IF YOU KEEP THEM DISTINCT WITHIN SOME NUMBER OF CHARACTERS
-- the minimum being 6, and 7 to be compatible with v7 sites (8, - 1
for the _ prepended by the compiler).

Brandon (bsa@ncoast.UUCP)
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