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: 103376,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f8c65,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c65,public X-Google-Thread: 1008e3,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1008e3,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: mag@eskimo.com (mAg) Subject: Re: Hungarian notation Date: 1996/05/16 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 155138152 sender: news@eskimo.com (News User Id) x-nntp-posting-host: tia1.eskimo.com references: <4ahka7$o9m@inrou.erno.de> <4n6off$6e2@mikasa.iol.it> <3198F30F.2A2@zurich.ibm.com> <4na2ur$gbl@oban.cc.ic.ac.uk> <31999F43.41C67EA6@scn.de> organization: *.* newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.modula2,comp.edu,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1996-05-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <31999F43.41C67EA6@scn.de> (Wed, 15 May 1996 11:09:23 +0200), wendland%hpp015%hpp001.mch2.scn.de@scn.de says : > >Dr S.J. Harris wrote: >> By the way, I hate Hungarian notation too. I like symbol names that I can >> read out aloud if necessary. > >How right you are! > >G. Hungarian Notation is an excellent concept, but I am sure that it will be appreciated only by the programmers who have to work with serious code and maintain it for years. For others who write smaller programs, it may not even be necessary, because there is not need to convey the implementation specific stuff in the variable name, because they can shout and ask the other programmer in the next office... -- /* -------------------------------------------------------- MAG@ESKIMO.COM http://www.eskimo.com/~mag/index.html *********************************************************** To understand recursion one must first understand recursion *********************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------- */