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: 103376,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f8c65,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c65,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1008e3,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1008e3,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: The Amorphous Mass Subject: Re: Hungarian notation Date: 1996/05/27 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 157068541 distribution: world references: <31999F43.41C67EA6@scn.de> <319D2278.3F9A@netonecom.net> <4nr50r$jo2@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <4ns02o$ep3@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> <4o07o9$rfu@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au> <4o1vo3$p2a@news1.ni.net> <4oattj$408@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au> <4ob5ig$6n0@blackice.winternet.com> content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.modula2,comp.edu,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1996-05-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On 27 May 1996, Jeff Dege wrote: > On 27 May 1996 00:44:35 GMT, Peter Moylan (peter@fourier.newcastle.edu.au) wrote: > : This commenting business is not just an optional extra > : to make your code look pretty. The main reason for doing > : a good job on the commenting is that it helps you code > : a lot _faster_. > : > : But many students - particularly the weaker students > : - never seem to learn this point. Show them the easy way > : to get the job done, and they'll still stick stubbornly > : to the hard way. > > How many teachers _teach_ this? I've been through a BS program in CS, and > I'm half-way through an MS program in SE, and I've yet to have a class that > discussed issues of this sort. The only place on campus where these issues > were discussed was in the office of the student chapter of the ACM. (This > was the site of many an informative bull session between undergrads, grads, > and the occasional faculty advisor.) Quality and thoroughness of commenting was 20% of my grade in the first two (undergraduate) courses I took, and 10% in the last course I took. Needless to say I took to commenting code pretty quickly. -- James Robinson "Because we are returning a copy for postfix ++ james-robinson@uiowa.edu expressions, statements such as (c++)++; won't robinson@cs.uiowa.edu work as expected." -- Weiskamp & Flamig, _The_Complete_C++_Primer_, 2nd ed.