Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA From: cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: length of external names Message-ID: <6951@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 18:30:31 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6951 Posted: Thu Jan 3 18:30:31 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Jan-85 02:12:36 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 8 /* > Gads! When are they going to figure 6 or 8 chars is not enuf? i hate long names. what is this anyway, cobol? why say 'social_security_number' when you can say 'ssn'? personally, i would like to see variable names restricted to 3 chars exactly :-) */