variable naming...

Bruce Elrick belrick at home.com
Sat Apr 28 13:18:33 EDT 2001


Steve Holden wrote:
> 
> "Owen F. Ransen" <ransen_spam_me_not at nemo.it> wrote in ...
> > Ah...a good reason at last...none of the "Microsoft
> > does it so we don't!" objections. :)
> >
> That's usually a knee-jerk reaction, but not always a safe one. We should
> remember that Microsoft have done some good things (ODBC and DHCP spring
> readily to mind), and that we might be in similar trouble if *we* ran the
> largest software company in the world.

DHCP?  Looking at RFC 1531, 1541, and 2131, I'd say we have Bucknell
University to thank for DHCP :-)  (Maybe I'm ignorant of some history
before that)

Cheers...
Bruce



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