Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site omovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!ogcvax!omovax!batie From: batie@omovax.UUCP (Alan Batie) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Re: Standardization questions (cpp mostly) Message-ID: <138@omovax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 21:46:18 EDT Article-I.D.: omovax.138 Posted: Mon Oct 15 21:46:18 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 11:17:52 EDT References: <83@decvax.UUCP> <143@desint.UUCP> Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR Lines: 12 A POX on 6 character variable names!!!!!!!!!! They are among the most abominable creatures ever to grace a programming language. In a related subject: What machines can't support more than 6 character variables?? Outdated software maybe, but I can't see what the underlying machine has to do with it... Yes, I know you can fit 10 chars in a CYBER word, and that makes it handy, but you can still use longer strings fairly easily. Alan Batie ...!decvax!microsoft!omovax!argent!batie