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- From: fjm@onramp.net (Fred McCall)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: whither style
- Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 23:42:18 GMT
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- jezequel@stormbringer.irisa.fr (Jean-Marc Jezequel) wrote:
-
- :Please note that most of the HN (Hungarian Notation) discussion is led in the C
- :and C++ context only.
-
- Most discussion about most things (other than religious language
- bashing) take place in that context.
-
- :In Eiffel or Smalltalk, where everything is an object, it would be really *stupid*
- :to use such a restricted notation:
-
- A lot of us think that it's just as stupid to use Hungarian Notation
- in C. Don't blame C; blame Microsoft.
-
- [And I've met an awful lot of fans of HN who are also fans of Ada and
- want to use it there.]
-
- :So in conclusion, HN really are
- :...
- :>programming conventions ... developed to compensate for language flaws, are
- :...
- :
- :thus mostly relevant to C and C++. So please keep the discussion in these groups.
-
- Please don't. It's not really appropriate there, either, being a
- non-language-specific concept. If you think it shouldn't be discussed
- in an Ada (Modula/Smalltalk/Etc.) group because it's not specific to
- those languages, then the same reasoning would seem to apply to ANY
- language.
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