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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,f292779560fb8442 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,af40e09e753872c X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f8c65,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c65,public X-Google-Thread: 1008e3,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1008e3,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: nreitzel@lonestar.jpl.utsa.edu (Norman L. Reitzel ) Subject: Re: Hungarian notation Date: 1996/05/27 Message-ID: <4obh52$jnu@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 156927144 references: <31a3b322.442404233@sqarc> <4o35bu$ut8@sol.caps.maine.edu> organization: University of Texas at San Antonio 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: In article <4o35bu$ut8@sol.caps.maine.edu> slary61@maine.maine.edu writes: >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. > >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. That way, they can hire half-talented programmers at half-salaries to turn out their TOTALLY mediocre code. Every single decent product provided by MicroSoft (originator of HN) was purchased from somewhere else. I think they are an excellent counterexample. -- Norman L. Reitzel, Jr. | "When you live beside the graveyard, nreitzel@lonestar.utsa.edu | you can't cry for every funeral." Blue Water Ventures, dba. | Russian Proverb