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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 22:02:57 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 16:40:51 +0000, bart wrote:

> People are forgetting that in the days of 80-character hardware,
> identifiers were often limited to 6 characters or even fewer.

COBOL allowed for 30 from the beginning, as I recall. And PL/I allowed 31.

Whatever it was you meant by “80-character hardware” (see discussion 
elsewhere) ...