Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!sri-unix!LeFebvre.wbst@XEROX.ARPA From: LeFebvre.wbst@XEROX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Bug in Unix System V C compiler Message-ID: <800@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Aug-84 10:44:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.800 Posted: Mon Aug 6 10:44:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Aug-84 01:13:45 EDT Lines: 16 > And of course you turkeys are careful to write code that > uses long identifiers so that porting it to non-BSD UNIXes > is much more work than it had to be. Very professional. No gwyn, us "turkeys" believe in writing code that is readable and understandable (not to mention professional). This requires variable names that make more sense than "ad", "admod", "pts", "pslp", "ev", "evi", "it", "itmac", "lt1", "ndf", "nx", "pto", "smnt", "nrbits" (I could go on and on and on). I think a program that has descriptive variable names *is* very professional. William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice UniversityUsing long variable names at Xerox for the summer