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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 16:44:11 -0300
From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: Kai Henningsen <kaih@khms.westfalen.de>
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Subject: Re: any chance of 2.6.0-test*?
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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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