The old order changeth, yielding place to new;
And God fulfils himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
-- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
-- The Passing of Arthur
Quote #33
The 9th Commandment for C Programmers (Annotated Henry Spencer)
states thus:
IX Thy external identifiers shall be unique in the first
six characters, though this harsh discipline be irksome
and the years of its necessity stretch before thee
seemingly without end, lest thou tear thy hair out and
go mad on that fateful day when thou desirest to make
thy program run on an old system....
