Re^4: coding rules

Recall "Hungarian notation", by which means one prefixes the "real" name with a series of characters that encode the data type. Nasty nasty nasty.

Hungarian Notation isn't what most people think it is. There's a lot of sanity and clarity in real Hungarian. this article, Wrong, by Joel Spolsky, includes a description of what Hungarian was intended to be, one reason why the world diverged from Simonyi's original idea, and examples of how to use it as intended.

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Re^5: coding rules by adrianh (Chancellor) on Jun 11, 2005 at 11:44 UTC
Hungarian Notation isn't what most people think it is. There's a lot of sanity and clarity in real Hungarian. this article, Wrong, by Joel Spolsky, includes a description of what Hungarian was intended to be, one reason why the world diverged from Simonyi's original idea, and examples of how to use it as intended. There's even more sanity and clarity to be gained by using a language with decent support for types. This is exactly the sort of guff that computers are a whole lot better at keeping track of than humans.	[reply]

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Re^5: coding rules
by adrianh (Chancellor) on Jun 11, 2005 at 11:44 UTC

Hungarian Notation isn't what most people think it is. There's a lot of sanity and clarity in real Hungarian. this article, Wrong, by Joel Spolsky, includes a description of what Hungarian was intended to be, one reason why the world diverged from Simonyi's original idea, and examples of how to use it as intended.

There's even more sanity and clarity to be gained by using a language with decent support for types. This is exactly the sort of guff that computers are a whole lot better at keeping track of than humans.

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