* ADA NAME SPACE (WAS: RE:
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On Wed, 2 Jun 1993, Jim Crigler, 6-6101 posted to All:
J6. With reference to C's name space (and rich operator set): I am convinced
. that C was created by people who hated to type.
No, but it was created on a system which used TTY 33s as the input devices
and, as a consequence, the language and the associated OS (eunuchs) had a
premium placed on short names... This was also the origin (or so I have
been told) for Unix using only linefeed, instead of the more conventional
CR/LF. A CR required a 250 ms timing loop and this would slow down the
input device (a glass TTY).
Regards, Mikey <michael.hagerty@nitelog.com>
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