Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site boulder.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!hao!nbires!boulder!geoff From: geoff@boulder.UUCP (Geoffrey M. Clemm) Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs,net.lang.c Subject: Re: long names in 'C' programs Message-ID: <367@boulder.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-May-85 00:45:06 EDT Article-I.D.: boulder.367 Posted: Mon May 20 00:45:06 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 23-May-85 04:12:28 EDT References: Reply-To: geoff@boulder.UUCP (Geoffrey Clemm) Distribution: net Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 27 Xref: watmath net.sources.bugs:332 net.lang.c:5267 The tone of this response is intended to match that of the original posting. If you dislike rude and mindless behaviour, 'j' this message. In article ignatz@aicchi.UUCP (Ihnat) writes: >All right, people... > >If you insist on making 'C' programs look like COBOL by using >32,767 character names, the *very* least you can do is make the >damn things unique in the first 7 characters, OK? "Fer Crissakes", this "damn" "drivel" from that "intolerable" "joker" Ihnat is "bloody" "annoying". (All quoted words verbatim from Ihnat's posting). Well, my compiler will only take single character identifiers, and any program that uses longer ones is being verbose and non-portable (ask any Basic programmer from the 1960's). >(No, don't tell me that I can write or get a >preprocessor program to mung the source--this makes debugging and >understandability even more of a joke than it already is.) Oh, you are concerned about "understandability". And you can't see the point in having names longer than 7 characters ? Well, you see there is a tradeoff between portability and understandability, and some of us are more concerned about understandability than porting to your compiler.