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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: net.sources.d
Subject: Re: Using identifiers with more than 7 chars. #$%@
Message-ID: <178@desint.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Mar-86 19:10:18 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 15 19:10:18 1986
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References: <174@desint.UUCP> <433@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU>
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In article <433@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@ucbopal.UUCP (Mike Meyer) writes:

> ...BSD [isn't] the only system that
> supported long variable names - most everybody does, nowdays.

Wrong again.  Nearly every C compiler currently being *offered for sale*
supports long names.  That is very much different from "most
everybody", which I take to mean the installed base of UNIX systems.  As
has already been pointed out in this group, there are over 100,000
TRS-16's running XENIX;  since XENIX was still III-based as little as
a year ago, it is reasonable to assume that the great majority of the
installed base (counting by number of machines, not users) has
7-character names or shorter.
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	Geoff Kuenning
	{hplabs,ihnp4}!trwrb!desint!geoff