Sujet : Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.lang.cDate : 05. Mar 2025, 23:02:57
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On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 16:40:51 +0000, bart wrote:
People are forgetting that in the days of 80-character hardware,
identifiers were often limited to 6 characters or even fewer.
COBOL allowed for 30 from the beginning, as I recall. And PL/I allowed 31.
Whatever it was you meant by “80-character hardware” (see discussion
elsewhere) ...