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: 109fba,f292779560fb8442 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,af40e09e753872c X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: f8c65,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c65,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1008e3,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1008e3,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us (Ralph Silverman) Subject: Re: Hungarian notation Date: 1996/06/06 Message-ID: <4p6n92$qbb@nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 158779139 references: <4adem2$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: 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: 1996-06-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jeff Dege (jdege@winternet.com) wrote: : On 24 May 1996 02:02:38 GMT, slary61@maine.maine.edu wrote: : : : : 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? : Because it looks good to managers who are five layers above anyone who's : touched a line of code in the last 15 years. : -- : Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: : "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one." : -C.S. Lewis -- ************begin r.s. response************ also, does this not enable critics, managers, commentators and 'superiors' generally to 'seem to know' what the code is about... even when they have no idea how such things work? ************end r.s response*************** Ralph Silverman z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us