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From: dweller@dfw.net (David Weller)
Subject: Re: Language Choice and Coding style
Date: 1996/06/21
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Date: 1996-06-21T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <nh3f3pppsl.fsf@paralysys>,
Nasser Abbasi <nasser@apldbio.com> wrote:
>
>Tonight I'd like to ask a question I've always been afraid to ask.
>
>I'd like to know why do C and C++ programmer 
>
>pchWriteInThisStargeAndHardToReadWayLikeThis while the Ada programmers 
>
>Write_In_Clear_And_Nice_Way_Like_This ??
>
>

>From the original C documentation (which was unpublished until a rogue
copy escaped a few months ago):

Section 2, para 4:
	Usage of white space in identifiers is not recommended.
	To ensure no white space is used, the underscore symbol,
	'_' consumes 64kb of symbol space per occurrence.  The
	occurrence of a lower case and upper case letter together,
	however, consumes less than their sum -- 4 bits exactly.



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