Re: [ANN] an EBNF parser and coding pattern tool (LGPL)

["Hillel Y. Sims" <usenet@phatbasset.com>]

"White Wolf" <wolof@freemail.hu> wrote in message
news:clcm-20030131-0001@plethora.net...
>
> I would appreciate if people could stop here:
>
> 1.) connecting the Hungarian notation to Hungarians
>
[..]
> Two facts:
>
> 1.) There are over 15 million other Hungarians than Simonyi

This seems slightly logically inconsistent. If Simonyi is
Hungarian, then there is a valid connection between Simonyi's
invention and Hungarians. I don't think anyone of any reasonable
intelligence capable of reading these articles therefore relates
any negative aspects in his invention to Hungarians in general
though!

>
> 2.) The Hungarian notation has _nothing_ to do with the
Hungarian language.

And then there's Reverse Polish Notation too; which is a
generally well-respected, if also oddly named, technique. Who
was making fun of Hungarians?? Everyone reading these groups
understands what is meant by "Hungarian notation"; at most the
previous poster was merely guilty of omitting the word
"notation" in a few places, where it was already implictly
assumed anyhow. As someone who has a fair dislike for overuse of
Hungarian notation style, it does not really lead me to feel any
kind of negativity toward Hungarians in general, and even that
particular post did not make me feel any kind of negativity
toward Hungarians in general, and I doubt anyone else thinks
there is any kind of slur on Hungarians, except for some
overly-sensitive Hungarians! :-O)

>
> BTW I am yet to see any Hungarian who likes Hungarian
notation.

Probably not many non-Hungarians either!

>
> So please keep it in mind, that I will fight 'till death
against making the
> Hungarians targets for lame jokes in the C++ community.  And
you may wanna
> notice, that the very computer you use to type in your
not-funny lines -
> among other Hungarians about me - is a Neumann computer.  He
was a
> Hungarian, too.
>
> WW aka Attila

I don't speak for the previous poster, but I think you are
simply overreacting. People should be entitled to speak their
minds without fear of possibly offending someone somewhere with
the slightest nuance of their speech. Did you ever hear the
saying "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will
never hurt me"?

Can't we all just get along? :-D

hys
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