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: 103376,d95b511473b3a931 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) Subject: Re: Language Choice and Coding style Date: 1996/06/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 161747488 sender: djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu references: organization: UCSD Computer Science and Engineering Department newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-06-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > I'd like to know why do C and C++ programmer > > pchWriteInThisStargeAndHardToReadWayLikeThis while the Ada programmers > > Write_In_Clear_And_Nice_Way_Like_This ?? In my experience, the ThisIsAVariable type of code is relatively *new*. None of the UNIX calls or types are named that way, but Windows uses that style all over. Thus I suspect that newer C programmers programming on Windows tend to use that style. (the style was often used in SmallTalk as well, since "_" wasn't part of variable names) In general, older people don't use case-specific stuff as much. -- Darin Johnson djohnson@ucsd.edu O- "You used to be big." "I am big. It's the pictures that got small."