I don't get your argument here. You say Haskell conforms strictly to the spec and that's a good thing, okay. But then if the C spec allows for truncated names, a compiler could strictly follow the spec and truncate names. So strictly following the spec is not in fact the whole story
Yeah very sorry for the confusion. I should not have used the word strictly. I explained my definition of strictly in the above comment and it’s not really strictly in the dictionary sense. I apologize for my bad writing.