long identifiers

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poser at csli.stanford.edu (Bill Poser):
> ... wants to know about long external identifier names ...

In article <272477A0.6845 at tct.uucp> chip at tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
> ... quotes Spencer's 10th [9th?] commandment for C programmers

I wonder about this. Why not have your long variable names, and for your
crummy 6-chars-only machine #include a file with stuff like:

#define LN1 long_name_one
#define LN2 long_name_two
...
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James Picton-Warlow,
jamespw at mqcomp.mqcs.mq.oz.au or some such