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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-05 00:13:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.bc.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml Subject: Re: Long names are doom ? Organization: Canadian Mind Products Reply-To: roedy@mindprod.com Message-ID: References: <83WP6.3874$yc6.728572@news.xtra.co.nz> <3B1411D0.3AAF42E7@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <9f2nks$ibd$0@dosa.alt.net> <3B177EF7.2A2470F4@facilnet.es> <9f8b7b$h0e$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9f8r0i$lu3$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9fgagu$6ae$1@nh.pace.co.uk> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 07:13:02 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.76.128.193 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.bc.home.com 991725182 24.76.128.193 (Tue, 05 Jun 2001 00:13:02 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 00:13:02 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8121 comp.lang.awk:2749 comp.lang.clarion:21076 comp.lang.java.programmer:73568 comp.lang.pl1:743 comp.lang.vrml:3472 Date: 2001-06-05T07:13:02+00:00 List-Id: On 4 Jun 2001 22:27:23 -0500, Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) wrote or quoted : >Since these are both your work, I think a more open statement than >"There is a general rule" would have been "I have a general rule". Being dreadfully modest, I doubt there are few other people in the world who, when they can't fall asleep at night worry about why the world's computer programs are not maintainable. It has been a bit of an obsession of mine for a long time, going back before some of you were born. I have done quite a bit of experimenting trying to find out what makes programs maintainable and unmaintainable. Few others in the known universe have come near the number of posts I have done preaching the gospel of maintainability and the path to true salvation. Even the esteemed Bruce Eckel said I should write a book on the topic. For more detail, please look up the key words mentioned in this post in the Java Glossary at: http://mindprod.com/gloss.html If you don't see what you were looking for, complain! or send your contribution for the glossary. -- Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products Custom computer programming since 1963. Ready to take on new work.