The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (Annotated Edition)
Mark-Jason Dominus
mjd at saul.cis.upenn.edu
Tue Nov 6 08:27:01 AEST 1990
In article <TOM.90Nov5072220 at hcx2.ssd.csd.harris.com> tom at ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley) writes:
>> [Henry Spencer says to make your identifiers unique in
>> the first six characters.]
> I have freedom of choice. I can refuse to work on systems
> so brain dead they only support 6 character externals,
> and I urge all other programmers to make the same choice.
Heh. You know, I heard somewhere that shops with old,
crufty linkers pay their consulting fees in money that is
just as green as that paid out by shops with new, shiny
linkers.
Just a rumor, you understand.
--
In some sense a stochastic process can do better; at least it has a chance.
Mark-Jason Dominus mjd at central.cis.upenn.edu
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