Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sjuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!psuvax1!burdvax!sjuvax!jss From: jss@sjuvax.UUCP (J. Shapiro) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Quality programming in c -- a rarity? Message-ID: <809@sjuvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 03:50:20 EST Article-I.D.: sjuvax.809 Posted: Wed Feb 6 03:50:20 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Feb-85 00:47:22 EST References: <443@decwrl.UUCP> <4541@ucbvax.ARPA> Organization: Saint Josephs Univ. Phila., Pa. Lines: 22 [Aren't you hungry...?] > Restrictions in the language (at least the ones I've seen talked about > in this group) aren't going to force people to comment their code, nor > will it force them to use nice long mnemonic variable names, nor will > it keep them from writing 10-page functions (my 3 major complaints > about the Berkeley kernel). > > Mike Kupfer > kupfer@Berkeley > ...!ucbvax!kupfer In particular, limiting the length of externals to 8 characters (or 6, or *anything*) isn't real helpful in this regard. One day I am going to teach a programming style course at Berkeley... Jon Shapiro Haverford College ..!allegra!sjuvax!jss ----------------------- Flames to /dev/null...