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From: Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com>
Subject: Re: Three simple questions
Date: 2000/10/17
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Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org> writes:
> When I run after
> inconsitent names, I change them and try to educate the author (non
> software engineer) about the merits of consistency in big programs (>
> 100 lines ;-).

No kidding.  At the database company I worked for >10 years ago, they
had peppered the code with "r"this and "t"that, where "r" and "t"
meant either "relation" and "tuple" or "row" and "table".  Sometimes
you had to read a lot of context to figure out which one was meant.

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