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: 10db24,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,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 From: z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us (Ralph Silverman) Subject: Re: Hungarian notation Date: 1996/06/10 Message-ID: <4phmf3$lm6@nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 159469049 references: <31999F43.41C67EA6@scn.de> <319D2278.3F9A@netonecom.net> <4nr50r$jo2@ringer.cs.utsa.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: 1996-06-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Steve Willer (willer@carolian.com) wrote: : ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) wrote: : >I am not the only person in this department who wishes that more of our : >students had attained at least "advanced apprentice" English skills. A : >good creative writing course might work wonders, especially one of those : >ones where you are taught how to _rewrite_. : My own experience with some of my co-workers is that typing skills are : very important as well. If the programmer has to hunt-and-peck at 20 : words a minute, they would be inclined to write minimal comments, log : messages, etc., using abbreviations that nobody except themselves can : understand. Plus, it promotes the naming of variables like "var", : "evnt", etc. : >This is, alas, painfully true. There are too perishing many programmers. : >What we need is more software engineers: people who can not only produce : >code that works but explain it so well that it keeps *on* working as the : >necessary adaptive changes are made. Show me someone who things that : >computing is all about programming, and I'll show you someone whose test : >plans aren't nearly good enough. : And don't forget designs. -- ***********begin r.s. response************** i do not know what to 'thing' about this... any help? ***********end r.s response***************** Ralph Silverman z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us