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: 10db24,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: f8c65,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c65,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1008e3,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1008e3,public From: z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us (Ralph Silverman) Subject: Re: Hungarian notation Date: 1996/06/05 Message-ID: <4p4430$ea0@nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 158591561 references: <4adem2$b5s@mercury.IntNet.net> <4n6off$6e2@mikasa.iol.it> <3198F30F.2A2@zurich.ibm.com> <4nsg3f$liu@solutions.solon.com> <31a3b322.442404233@sqarc> <4o35bu$ut8@sol.caps.maine.edu> followup-to: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.modula2,comp.edu,comp.lang.eiffel organization: SEFLIN Free-Net - Broward newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.modula2,comp.edu,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1996-06-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Richard A. O'Keefe (ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU) wrote: : slary61@maine.maine.edu writes: : >Perhaps Bill Gates will be contacting you for that explanation. : >Although the examples you cite support your opinion, the bottom : >line is that some of the largest software developers in the world : >insist on code using Hungarian Notation. : >Why? : This argument does not have a valid form. : More people speak Chinese than any other family of languages. : So should we all drop English and switch to Mandarin? : Come to think of it, should we be interested in the practices : of the *biggest* developers or of the *best*? : Frankly, I have come to the end of my tether. : I am *sick* of programs that don't work. : I am *sick* of operating systems that crash. : I am *sick* of word processors that hang my machine. : I am *sick* of hypercomplex interfaces with pathetic documentation. : I am *sick* of file transfer programs that scramble student files. : I am *sick* of oh well you get the idea. : I am nearly as fed up with Apple as I am with Micro$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. -- **********begin r.s. response************ that is an easy one! i can answer that!!! i would suggest a time machine go back to bell telephone laboratories in, oh, 1978! (btw) if you are going, kindly let me know... i might come along! **********end r.s. response************** Ralph Silverman z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us