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Seriously though, why? Is there historic reasons for that? Did they have to pay extra for more letters back in the day?
I worked with a complier that would assume only compare the first 8 characters and would treat it the same afterwards.
Compiler copyright was around 1990.
Edit: This was for function names in C
Damn that must have been such a headache