* Style Guide reference - subprogram/variable name lengths [not found] <3c4c22f2@pull.gecm.com> @ 2002-01-21 15:19 ` Martin Dowie 2002-01-21 16:18 ` Preben Randhol 0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Martin Dowie @ 2002-01-21 15:19 UTC (permalink / raw) oops - it is customary to have a subject! ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: Style Guide reference - subprogram/variable name lengths 2002-01-21 15:19 ` Style Guide reference - subprogram/variable name lengths Martin Dowie @ 2002-01-21 16:18 ` Preben Randhol 2002-01-21 16:41 ` Martin Dowie 0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Preben Randhol @ 2002-01-21 16:18 UTC (permalink / raw) On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:19:01 -0000, Martin Dowie wrote: > oops - it is customary to have a subject! A question or comment as well ;-) Preben -- () Join the worldwide campaign to protect fundamental human rights. '||} {||' http://www.amnesty.org/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: Style Guide reference - subprogram/variable name lengths 2002-01-21 16:18 ` Preben Randhol @ 2002-01-21 16:41 ` Martin Dowie 2002-01-21 21:49 ` Preben Randhol 0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Martin Dowie @ 2002-01-21 16:41 UTC (permalink / raw) "Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message news:slrna4ofso.7g4.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no... > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:19:01 -0000, Martin Dowie wrote: > > oops - it is customary to have a subject! > > A question or comment as well ;-) "I refer the honourable gentleman to the question I provided earlier" to paraphrase our Prime Minister et al. :-) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: Style Guide reference - subprogram/variable name lengths 2002-01-21 16:41 ` Martin Dowie @ 2002-01-21 21:49 ` Preben Randhol 2002-01-21 22:27 ` martin.m.dowie 0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Preben Randhol @ 2002-01-21 21:49 UTC (permalink / raw) On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:41:38 -0000, Martin Dowie wrote: > > "I refer the honourable gentleman to the question I provided earlier" > to paraphrase our Prime Minister et al. :-) Which question I cannot find it. Preben -- () Join the worldwide campaign to protect fundamental human rights. '||} {||' http://www.amnesty.org/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: Style Guide reference - subprogram/variable name lengths 2002-01-21 21:49 ` Preben Randhol @ 2002-01-21 22:27 ` martin.m.dowie 2002-01-21 22:41 ` Preben Randhol 0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: martin.m.dowie @ 2002-01-21 22:27 UTC (permalink / raw) "Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message news:slrna4p39f.1oj.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no... > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:41:38 -0000, Martin Dowie wrote: > > > > "I refer the honourable gentleman to the question I provided earlier" > > to paraphrase our Prime Minister et al. :-) > > Which question I cannot find it. ha! weird! my first post appears via my work newserver but not my news server at home! (I had forgotten to add a subject, so presumable some news servers filter on this...) My original question was - the Ada Quality and Style Guide references Schneiderman's "The Territory, Paths and Destinations" and in particular cites it for not using 'too long' identifiers. But having trawled google et al I can't find this paper on any internet site. Can anyone give a brief explanation of what the paper says and what the maximum length he determined should be? Or, preferably, give me a URL to the paper! Thanks and apologies again! Thanks and apologies for ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: Style Guide reference - subprogram/variable name lengths 2002-01-21 22:27 ` martin.m.dowie @ 2002-01-21 22:41 ` Preben Randhol 2002-01-22 9:02 ` Martin Dowie 0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Preben Randhol @ 2002-01-21 22:41 UTC (permalink / raw) On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 22:27:31 -0000, martin.m.dowie wrote: > My original question was - the Ada Quality and Style Guide > references Schneiderman's "The Territory, Paths and Destinations" > and in particular cites it for not using 'too long' identifiers. But > having trawled google et al I can't find this paper on any internet > site. Can anyone give a brief explanation of what the paper says > and what the maximum length he determined should be? (Try yahoo first it uses google if it cannot find anything interesting.) From the authors home page: 86-02 Shneiderman, B. (Feb. 1986) Empirical studies of programmers: the territory, paths, and destinations, keynote address for workshop, Empirical Studies of Programmers, E. Soloway & R. Iyengar, Eds., Ablex (June 1986) 1-12. CS-TR-1623 , CAR-TR-187 [Abstract] Abstract Information: * This paper attempts to describe the varied intellectual territory that programmers work in. It offers several paths for researchers who wish to explore this territory: controlled experiments, observational or field studies, surveys, and cognitive theories. Finally, this paper suggests several important destinations for researchers: refining the use of current languages, imporving present and future languages, developing special purpose languages, and improving tools and methods. Unless somebody has this article at hand, I think you have to go visit your nearest university (or other) library. Usually articles available on-line does not date so far back, besides you need a library to access these sites. Preben -- () Join the worldwide campaign to protect fundamental human rights. '||} {||' http://www.amnesty.org/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: Style Guide reference - subprogram/variable name lengths 2002-01-21 22:41 ` Preben Randhol @ 2002-01-22 9:02 ` Martin Dowie 2002-01-22 10:06 ` Preben Randhol 2002-01-22 11:22 ` John English 0 siblings, 2 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: Martin Dowie @ 2002-01-22 9:02 UTC (permalink / raw) > (Try yahoo first it uses google if it cannot find anything interesting.) > [snip] > > Unless somebody has this article at hand, I think you have to go visit > your nearest university (or other) library. Usually articles available > on-line does not date so far back, besides you need a library to access > these sites. I'm not sure if my nearest university lets people walk in off the street to get this sort of thing! :-) I had found the above too, but was hoping someone would have the 'magic' number to hand (all together now '42'! ;-) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: Style Guide reference - subprogram/variable name lengths 2002-01-22 9:02 ` Martin Dowie @ 2002-01-22 10:06 ` Preben Randhol 2002-01-22 11:32 ` Martin Dowie 2002-01-22 11:22 ` John English 1 sibling, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Preben Randhol @ 2002-01-22 10:06 UTC (permalink / raw) On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:02:24 -0000, Martin Dowie wrote: > > I'm not sure if my nearest university lets people walk in off the street > to get this sort of thing! :-) You don't have a library service at work that orthers articles (work related of course) for you? Preben -- () Join the worldwide campaign to protect fundamental human rights. '||} {||' http://www.amnesty.org/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: Style Guide reference - subprogram/variable name lengths 2002-01-22 10:06 ` Preben Randhol @ 2002-01-22 11:32 ` Martin Dowie 0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: Martin Dowie @ 2002-01-22 11:32 UTC (permalink / raw) > You don't have a library service at work that orthers articles (work > related of course) for you? not one that's handy! It's about 7 miles across town :-( ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: Style Guide reference - subprogram/variable name lengths 2002-01-22 9:02 ` Martin Dowie 2002-01-22 10:06 ` Preben Randhol @ 2002-01-22 11:22 ` John English 2002-01-22 13:05 ` Martin Dowie 1 sibling, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: John English @ 2002-01-22 11:22 UTC (permalink / raw) Martin Dowie wrote: > > I'm not sure if my nearest university lets people walk in off the street > to get this sort of thing! :-) It should do; all the ones I've ever come across (apart from the Bodleian) are public access... Borrowing is a different matter, though! ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: Style Guide reference - subprogram/variable name lengths 2002-01-22 11:22 ` John English @ 2002-01-22 13:05 ` Martin Dowie 0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: Martin Dowie @ 2002-01-22 13:05 UTC (permalink / raw) "John English" <je@brighton.ac.uk> wrote in message news:3C4D4B5F.4FD8AA3A@brighton.ac.uk... > It should do; all the ones I've ever come across (apart from the > Bodleian) are public access... Borrowing is a different matter, > though! Really? I thought they were clamping down on 'strangers on the campus'?.. Even so, doesn't help much - the nearest uni. library to this office is probably as far as the company one across town doh! ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
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