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From: sgmlsh@world.std.com (Sam Hunting)
Subject: Re: Hungarian notation
Date: 1996/06/06
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Yang:

>: >On the contrary, my students know that working code is useless to hand in
>: >if it is not commented, so they *have* to comment the code. In fact a
>: >well-commented and well-designed but not quite working assignment gets
>: >much more credit than a fully working program which is poorly designed,
>: >or has incomplete or incomprehensible comments. 

Yin:

>	why not major in
>		hegelian metaphysics
>	or
>		creative writing (modern poetry)
>	?

Ah, the age old conflict between the rhetorical and philosophical world! 
Castiglione called the ability to hold these two antithetical worldviews 
in mind simultaneously "sprezzatura." 

Both "sides" are right, of course....
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