Quality programming in c -- a rarity?

[Norman Diamond]

> [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

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