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On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Rich Duzenbury wrote:
A large system, we are writing new programs, creating new files every day. The 10 character object name is very cramped - too much time is spent working out what naming convention to use.We had this discussion once before already. 10 ^ 36 is a *lot* of program names.
So what if 10^36 is a large number? Do you name your files 0000000001 and 0000000002? Of course not. The point is to have names that make good sense. How many sensible english descriptive phrases can be made with 10 characters? Not very many, and that is the problem. The problem is not running out of unique character combinations, it is running out of sensible descriptive contractions.
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