Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdchema.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!sdchema!jwp From: jwp@sdchema.UUCP (John Pierce) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: Bug in Unix System V C compiler Message-ID: <209@sdchema.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Aug-84 04:28:03 EDT Article-I.D.: sdchema.209 Posted: Fri Aug 3 04:28:03 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Aug-84 05:25:16 EDT References: <1068@sdcsvax.UUCP> <3705@brl-tgr.ARPA> <2978@utah-cs.UUCP> <3726@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: jwp@sdchema.UUCP (John Pierce) Organization: Chemistry Dept, UC San Diego Lines: 26 In article <3726@brl-tgr.ARPA> gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) writes: >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. Gee, I didn't realize any of you really extra super professional people working on those really super professional non-BSD systems considered any of us poor turkeys running BSD systems capable of writing anything you might *want*. My goodness!!! Do you really mean that someday some really extra super non-BSD superior professional type programmer might really ... God! This has me so excited I can hardly type!! ... might really actually maybe want to port something some slob BSD hacker wrote to their lovely pristinely professional non-BSD system!!?? I can hardly believe it! I mean, like, man, the thought just really boggles my (admittedly inferior nonprofessional) mind!!! Golly Whiz!!! I gonna have to start giving this some thought though that's probably gonna be hard for a poor nonprofessional like me. Let's see... I guess I can start with cutting identifiers back to 8 characters (since that seems to be what all the great professional people on the standards committee think is best)... And I guess I could put in line numbers so they could find things easier... WOW, MAN!! I just had a BRILLIANT idea (in my nonprofessional judgement, of course)... I could write everything in FORTRAN (pure ANSII standard, of course) since we all know that that's really easy to port... John Pierce, Chemistry, UC San Diego sdcsvax!sdchema!jwp