[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: any chance of 2.6.0-test*?
From:       Werner Almesberger <wa () almesberger ! net>
Date:       2003-01-15 19:44:11
[Download RAW message or body]

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

-- 
  _________________________________________________________________________
 / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina         wa@almesberger.net /
/_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]