Wolfgang Rupprecht said:

>Tradition?  I guess nobody remembers the old pcc 6 (8 ???) character
>limit for C variable and routine names. (*) If you prepended long
>device names to the routine names you wouldn't have many characters
>left to describe the variable or routine itself.

Nah, Whitesmith C was worse. It would try to anticipate your syntax errors
and correct them on the fly.

I still believe that Whitesmith C could compile the phone book.

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