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From: jay@ethos.UUCP (Jay Denebeim)
Newsgroups: net.sources.d
Subject: Re: Using identifiers with more than 7 chars. #$%@
Message-ID: <457@ethos.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 18:09:35 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 18 18:09:35 1986
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References: <174@desint.UUCP> <433@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU> <178@desint.UUCP>
Reply-To: jay@ethos.UUCP (Jay Denebeim)
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In article <178@desint.UUCP> geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) writes:
>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.

Ditto for Sys V on the UNIX PC (ATT 7300).  Looks to me like it's about all of
the inexpensive UNIX systems.  How 'bout a variable name shortener program?
Anyone wanna try their hands at it?
 
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