Re: Language Choice and Coding style

[jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)]

Nasser Abbasi (nasser@apldbio.com) wrote:

: Most  C and C++ programmers are more hippy , 1960's type, type of people,
: the anti-establishment crowd, who just want to be different,

Havn't been around a C shop at a bank lately, have we ?  :-))

: I remmember
: starting to first see ThisTypeOfWritingOfCode around 1985-1986 time
: frame

Actually, I think the ILikeALotOfCasing stuff is decending from Turbo Pascal 
4.0 which would more or less coincide with the '85 framework.

The one_true_style for_c_programmers has always been more_ada_like, but, as
C is case sensitive, without the casing.

The lpszUglyNotation is a MS thing, introduced by Windows (see the neverending 
thread on Hungarian notation :-)

The PascalNotation seems to have made a lot of headway into C++ territory 
although Stroustup et all at Bell Labs seem to be hanging on to the C
variety.

Which make me think of a boss I once had who insisted that all objects were
assigned coded names like 'E84jKS' and 'DFK-34_9' arguing that this way we
were forced to check everything very carefully... the same one that insisted
on using BASIC as it made sure the source was never lost...

Ahh, well, there I go again, showing my age again :-))


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