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: 1014db,d95b511473b3a931 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d95b511473b3a931 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: nasser@apldbio.com (Nasser Abbasi) Subject: Re: Language Choice and Coding style Date: 1996/06/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 161629080 sender: news@biosys.apldbio.COM references: <4qeu56$52r@news.interpath.net> to: softbase@mercury.interpath.com (Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems) original-sender: nasser@apldbio.com followup-to: comp.lang.c organization: Applied BioSystems newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-06-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > From: softbase@mercury.interpath.com (Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems) : Tonight I'd like to ask a question I've always been afraid to ask. : I'd like to know why do C and C++ programmer : pchWriteInThisStargeAndHardToReadWayLikeThis > You're obviously an idiot. hummm... I dont think I am an idiot. If I were, don't you think I'll be the first to know it? after all, I know myself much more than you do. > No real C programmer would use Hungarian notation, > and certainly a real C programmer would never use an identifier > longer than 6 bytes. No real C programmer would use more than one > word in an identifier unless an underscore separated them. > The slimy things that use Hungarian notation, mixed case > identifiers, and descriptive identifiers hide from > real C programmers. But REAL real C/C++ programmers can certinaly write identifiers longer than 6 bytes. I guess you have not looked at any windows code lately or looked at some of the popular C/C++ in the book stores. Almost all UseThisTypeOfWritingInTheCode this is one X window function I picked by random as an example: XSetWindowBackgroundPixmap() Are you saying the people who wrote windows and Xwindows stuff and and MFC and all the rest of it are not real C programmers? : My own personal analysis of the situation after long thought... > It's scary to contemplate, isn't it? Not realy. I've always been like this. I like to think long :) : Scott Nasser -- Nasser Abbasi. C/C++/Ada Solaris. GeneAssist - A client/server application for Nucleic acid and protein sequence search and analysis. PE-Applied BioSystem division. email: nasser@apldbio.com MSEE(control), MSCS, MSCE, FM(Fide Chess Master 2305 ELO 1.e4 !!)