Re: Hungarian notation

[z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us (Ralph Silverman)]

The Amorphous Mass (robinson@green.weeg.uiowa.edu) wrote:
: On 27 May 1996, Jeff Dege wrote:

: > 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 <sigh!> 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.)

:   Quality and thoroughness of commenting was 20% of my grade in the first 
: two (undergraduate) courses I took, and 10% in the last course I took.  
: Needless to say I took to commenting code pretty quickly.

: --
: James Robinson            "Because we are returning a copy for postfix ++ 
: james-robinson@uiowa.edu  expressions, statements such as (c++)++; won't
: robinson@cs.uiowa.edu     work as expected."            -- Weiskamp & Flamig,
:                                            _The_Complete_C++_Primer_, 2nd ed.




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	wouldn't it be great to
		grow up,
		not worry about what some teacher
			thinks about your comments,
		and just focus on the code?

	i do that now!

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Ralph Silverman
z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us