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From: jss@sjuvax.UUCP (J. Shapiro)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Quality programming in c -- a rarity?
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Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 03:50:20 EST
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[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
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