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: f8c65,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c65,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1008e3,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1008e3,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: musgrove@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN (AJ Musgrove) Subject: Re: Hungarian notation Date: 1996/05/29 Message-ID: <4oif0n$6bi@ns3.iamerica.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 157417852 references: <4adem2$b5s@mercury.IntNet.net> <4n6off$6e2@mikasa.iol.it> <3198F30F.2A2@zurich.ibm.com> <4nsg3f$liu@solutions.solon.com> <31a3b322.442404233@sqarc> <4o35bu$ut8@sol.caps.maine.edu> followup-to: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.modula2,comp.edu,comp.lang.eiffel organization: LDS iAmerica newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.modula2,comp.edu,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1996-05-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: slary61@maine.maine.edu wrote: : dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote: : > Hungarian notation is certainly a remarkable demonstration of how few people : > have learned and understood data abstraction. What's most interesting is : > how difficult it is for its advocates to see this point, but I suppose that : > is not surprising. If you never understood what abstraction is about, then : > of course adopting a notation that destroys it will not concern you. : Perhaps Bill Gates will be contacting you for that explanation. : Although the examples you cite support your opinion, the bottom : line is that some of the largest software developers in the world : insist on code using Hungarian Notation. : Why? ^^^^ Considering how bugy Micro$loths code is, I'm wondering why myself. It isn't helping them. I use NT and mostly Microsh*t apps at work (not by choice), and all day, I have to ask myself, why did it do that? I actually program on a Sun system, where I don't have to constanly ask that. If my NT workstation was anything more than a big X-Term/E-Mail Client/Work Processor, I don't know how I would manage. I tried HN for a while. It mangled code and made it difficult to maintain ALOT more than it was helped. Besides, IMHO, you can tell from code what the var is, and, if not, just look how the damn thing is declared. -- AJ Musgrove ---------------------------------------------------------------- My opinions are just that ----------------------------------------------------------------