From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: ian@rsd.bel.alcatel.be (Ian Ward) Subject: Re: Hungarian notation Date: 1996/05/24 Message-ID: <4o3v8a$f76@btmpjg.god.bel.alcatel.be>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 156491651 distribution: world references: <4o35bu$ut8@sol.caps.maine.edu> organization: Alcatel Bell Telephone reply-to: ian@rsd.bel.alcatel.be newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-05-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote: > Hungarian notation is certainly a remarkable demonstration of how few people > have learned and understood data abstraction. What's most interesting is > how difficult it is for its advocates to see this point, but I suppose that > is not surprising. If you never understood what abstraction is about, then > of course adopting a notation that destroys it will not concern you. slary61@maine.maine.edu () wrote: > Perhaps Bill Gates will be contacting you for that explanation. > Although the examples you cite support your opinion, the bottom > line is that some of the largest software developers in the world > insist on code using Hungarian Notation. > Why? Ben Elton, and others in 'Blackadder II - The Elizabethan Sitcom' Wrote: Size is no guarantee of quality Baldrick, a horse is a magnificently endowed animal, but one could hardly call it a sensitive lover. --- Ian Ward's opinions only : ian@rsd.bel.alcatel.be Hmm! Hmmm! HMMM! ... it's, er "burgled" Mr. President.