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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
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Posted: Thu Jan  3 18:30:31 1985
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> 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 :-)

*/