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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: MAJOR ANSI C FLAW (my opinion, of course)
Message-ID: <8992@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 09:03:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 13 09:03:28 1987
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In article <104@aimt.UUCP> breck@aimt.UUCP (Robert Breckinridge Beatie) writes:
>Hmmm...  why is a 6 character limit necessary in any environment?

Because some vendors like FORTRAN---or should I say,

	PROGRAM BECAUS
	REAL SOME
	COMMON /VENDOR/ SOME
	...
	INTEGER FUNCTION LIKE(FORTRA)
	INTEGER FORTRA
	...

These vendors refuse to go through (or put their users through) the
trauma of converting compilers, linkers, debuggers, and such.

`If it was good enough for the 1950s, it is good enough for you'

(bleah)
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