Quality programming in c -- a rarity?
J. Shapiro
jss at sjuvax.UUCP
Wed Feb 6 18:50:20 AEST 1985
[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 at 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
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