Hi All,
Anybody use variables/names longer than 31 character
and finds it really useful ?
Then please respond why, where, when.
I have folks here in comp.lang.fortran who will die claiming that they
- "never seen a well written, legible program
that uses any identifiers longer than 18-20 characters..".
- "long variables names are *hard* to read. And, you have to
read though all the characters of every instance of them...".
- "it degrades the legibility of a program to use identifiers that
can't be easily remembered...."
As a result, despite 90% of computer languages have long, very
long or 'infinite' identifiers, fortran folks seems plan to stay
with their 6...aargh ...sorry this was just not far ago... 31 character
limit intil year 3000.
cheers
