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: 103376,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1008e3,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1008e3,public X-Google-Thread: f8c65,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c65,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Richard A. O'Keefe) Subject: Re: Hungarian notation Date: 1996/05/28 Message-ID: <4oehcq$ogl@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 157122929 references: <4adem2$b5s@mercury.IntNet.net> <4n6off$6e2@mikasa.iol.it> <3198F30F.2A2@zurich.ibm.com> <4nsg3f$liu@solutions.solon.com> <31a3b322.442404233@sqarc> <4o35bu$ut8@sol.caps.maine.edu> organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.modula2,comp.edu,comp.lang.eiffel nntp-posting-user: ok Date: 1996-05-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: slary61@maine.maine.edu writes: >Perhaps Bill Gates will be contacting you for that explanation. >Although the examples you cite support your opinion, the bottom >line is that some of the largest software developers in the world >insist on code using Hungarian Notation. >Why? This argument does not have a valid form. More people speak Chinese than any other family of languages. So should we all drop English and switch to Mandarin? Come to think of it, should we be interested in the practices of the *biggest* developers or of the *best*? Frankly, I have come to the end of my tether. I am *sick* of programs that don't work. I am *sick* of operating systems that crash. I am *sick* of word processors that hang my machine. I am *sick* of hypercomplex interfaces with pathetic documentation. I am *sick* of file transfer programs that scramble student files. I am *sick* of oh well you get the idea. I am nearly as fed up with Apple as I am with Micro$oft. I want to learn from the people who routinely produce programs that work. -- Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ??? Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ok; RMIT Comp.Sci.