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From: batie@omovax.UUCP (Alan Batie)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re: Standardization questions (cpp mostly)
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Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 21:46:18 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 15 21:46:18 1984
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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  Outdated software maybe, but I can't see what the underlying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