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From: breck@aimt.UUCP (Robert Breckinridge Beatie)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: MAJOR ANSI C FLAW (my opinion, of course)
Message-ID: <182@aimt.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 11:48:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: aimt.182
Posted: Thu Oct 15 11:48:01 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 09:56:22 EDT
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Summary: messing up C for Fortran's sake seems silly

In article <8992@mimsy.UUCP>, chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
> 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,

> 	[ Fortran-like explanation deleted]

> 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)

You mean that this is to maintain something like compatability with another
language?  And that language is Fortran?

Sigh!

Well, at least this nonsense is destined to be phased out of the ansi
standard.  At least some posters have given that impression.
-- 
Breck Beatie
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