The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (Annotated Edition)

[Mark-Jason Dominus]

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.
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 In some sense a stochastic process can do better; at least it has a chance.
Mark-Jason Dominus 	  			    mjd at central.cis.upenn.edu