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- From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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- Subject: Re: Hungarian notation - whoops!
- Date: 8 Mar 1996 10:50:09 -0500
- Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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- Richard asks
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- "(a) is this really a useful thing to do?"
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- Yup, very useful, used for all sorts of things all the time! Your rear
- guard defence of sign and magnitude is quite entertaining, I feel like
- I am reading a paper from the late 60's (incidentally there are several
- such papers discussing these issues in that era).
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- As a programmer, I sure am glad that sign and magnitude has disappeared
- completely, it makes life so much simpler. Sign and magnitude is a pain
- to deal with!
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