Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdaisy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watdaisy!ndiamond From: ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Quality programming in c -- a rarity? Message-ID: <6936@watdaisy.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 22:18:36 EST Article-I.D.: watdaisy.6936 Posted: Thu Feb 7 22:18:36 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Feb-85 01:12:45 EST References: <443@decwrl.UUCP> <4541@ucbvax.ARPA> <809@sjuvax.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 23 > [L]imiting 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 Sorry Jon, by now you probably think I'm picking on you. This is not a flame. (At least, it's not directed at you.) ..... You'll have to teach a programming style course at IBM, and DEC, and Honeywell, and AT&T Bell Labs, and all those other places who developed linkers that won't accept longer external names, and who do not upgrade their linkers to accept them. -- Norman Diamond UUCP: {decvax|utzoo|ihnp4|allegra|clyde}!watmath!watdaisy!ndiamond CSNET: ndiamond%watdaisy@waterloo.csnet ARPA: ndiamond%watdaisy%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa "Opinions are those of the keyboard, and do not reflect on me or higher-ups."