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From: mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu (Matt Kennel)
Subject: Re: Hungarian notation
Date: 1996/06/12
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Bob Rodgers (rsrodger@wam.umd.edu) wrote:
: kcline@sun132.spd.dsccc.com (Kevin Cline) wrote:
: >Actually, I think Mr. Silverman knows exactly what student code looks like:
: >It looks a lot like professional code.  Or should I say that a lot of
: >professionally written code looks like 2nd-year student code?

: >Maybe we should have a contest to find the worst examples of professionally
: >produced C++ code?  

: You mean code that has pointer errors of the sort that even first
: semester CS students are expected to avoid?

: If we have a pool, put me down for "Netscape" and "Delrina."

First semester CS students avoid such things by using Scheme or at least
anything with a garbage collector. 

Clueless professionals think they're past such things, and believe that
as in Lake Wobegon, they are all above average. 

First semester physics laboratory students are told over and over "Check
your units! Dimensional analysis!"

Professionals still have to do that all the time.  
Always: if the units are wrong, the answer is wrong. 

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