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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ebe6e2ef707c0384 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news2.volia.net!solnet.ch!solnet.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!cernne03.cern.ch!not-for-mail From: Maciej Sobczak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: how to create a record Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 08:51:58 +0100 Organization: CERN News Message-ID: References: <1162523698.802339.225760@h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: abpc10883.cern.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: cernne03.cern.ch 1162540319 2485 137.138.37.241 (3 Nov 2006 07:51:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@@cern.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 07:51:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060922) In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7345 Date: 2006-11-03T08:51:58+01:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Creem wrote: > 4) I don't know what it is about Ada but people love the word so much > they feel the need to say it all the time. Ada_LinkList? Would you have > written CLinkedList? Actually, there are C++ programmers that put 'C' in front of *every* class name. And it's not to compensate for the lack of namespaces in some stone-age compilers, it's just to say "this is a class". I guess that it's Microsoft's MFC framework/library that promoted it most widely with its broken variant of what was initially a "Hungarian Notation". For your amusement: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/_mfc_hierarchy_chart.asp -- Maciej Sobczak : http://www.msobczak.com/ Programming : http://www.msobczak.com/prog/