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- From: berczuk@space.mit.edu (Steve Berczuk)
- Subject: Re: RESULTS: C++ file extension survey
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- One issue I haven't seen raised in this discussion (but which has arisen multiple
- times in work situations where we are trying to decide on project-wide standards
- for naming is file name length limitations.
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- in a unix environment, you often want to be portable to system V systems which have
- a file name limit of somethinglike 15 characters. you also want to have reasonably
- descriptive names. so that seems like a good reason to use .C in a unix envirinment
- rather than .cpp or .cc. Other platforms may have different issues.
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- what are thoughts about this?
- (keep in mind that a 15 char limit really means less if you allow for
- a ,v for the RCS file and teh "." between file name and extension and
- any subsystem prefixes you might establish at your work site)
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- Steve Berczuk berczuk@mit.edu
- MIT Center for Space Research (617) 253-3840
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