Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gitpyr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!gitpyr!robert From: robert@gitpyr.UUCP (Robert Viduya) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Quality programming in c -- a rarity? Message-ID: <134@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Feb-85 21:57:56 EST Article-I.D.: gitpyr.134 Posted: Fri Feb 15 21:57:56 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 17-Feb-85 04:39:40 EST References: <443@decwrl.UUCP> <4541@ucbvax.ARPA> <594@ncoast.UUCP> Organization: Georgia Tech, Atlanta Lines: 19 >< Posted from bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) > 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. > I was browsing through the System V Release 2.0 Programming Guide last night and they say that an the C compiler for Vax-11 and their 3B20 both support external name sizes of ">100 characters, 2 cases". So it isn't just Berkeley that supports long identifiers. robert -- Robert Viduya Georgia Institute of Technology ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,masscomp,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!robert ...!{rlgvax,sb1,uf-cgrl,unmvax,ut-sally}!gatech!gitpyr!robert