Re: any chance of 2.6.0-test*?

From: Werner Almesberger (wa@almesberger.net)
Date: Wed Jan 15 2003 - 14:44:11 EST

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Kai Henningsen wrote:
> * typically uses one- or two-character variable names

At ETH, we jokingly called this WNF ("Wirth's Normal Form". Well,
actually "Wirthsche Normalform"): shortening any identifier name
would make it conflict with another one.

Isn't it funny how irrelevant those Pascal-family languages
become, once you grok C ? :-)

- Werner

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