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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,af40e09e753872c X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,f292779560fb8442 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1008e3,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1008e3,public X-Google-Thread: f8c65,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c65,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jdege@winternet.com (Jeff Dege) Subject: Re: Hungarian notation Date: 1996/05/27 Message-ID: <4ob5ig$6n0@blackice.winternet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 156901927 references: <31999F43.41C67EA6@scn.de> <319D2278.3F9A@netonecom.net> <4nr50r$jo2@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <4ns02o$ep3@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> <4o07o9$rfu@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au> <4o1vo3$p2a@news1.ni.net> <4oattj$408@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au> organization: StarNet Communications, Inc newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.modula2,comp.edu,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1996-05-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On 27 May 1996 00:44:35 GMT, Peter Moylan (peter@fourier.newcastle.edu.au) wrote: : This commenting business is not just an optional extra : to make your code look pretty. The main reason for doing : a good job on the commenting is that it helps you code : a lot _faster_. : : But many students - particularly the weaker students : - never seem to learn this point. Show them the easy way : to get the job done, and they'll still stick stubbornly : to the hard way. How many teachers _teach_ this? I've been through a BS program in CS, and I'm half-way through an MS program in SE, and I've yet to have a class that discussed issues of this sort. The only place on campus where these issues were discussed was in the office of the student chapter of the ACM. (This was the site of many an informative bull session between undergrads, grads, and the occasional faculty advisor.) -- Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one." -C.S. Lewis