NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/lang/c/11579

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From: [e-mail] (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Subject: Re: Hungarian notation
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:25:54 GMT
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Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting
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[Apologies if you see this twice - I think it failed the first time]

[e-mail] (Allan Duncan) writes:
>From article <[e-mail]>, by [e-mail] (D'Arcy J.M. Cain):
>> On the other hand, a properly prototyped program using a modern compiler
>> will tell you when you are using a variable incorrectly and in the above
>> example will simply do the promotion silently.  This means that you don't
>> even have to know what filepos is other than that it is a variable holding
>> the position in a file.  You can deal with the abstract concept without
>> getting involved in the details of the bits that are used to implement it.
>
>This reliance on a compiler is no better than a journalist relying on a
>spelling and grammar checker.  It is getting very common now to see

There is nothing wrong with relying on your tools to help you.  Of course
you can't rely *solely* on your tools but where is that not true?  If a
journalist or other writer were to put their work through a checker before
or after manually checking that would be better than manually checking
alone.  One may as well say that reliance on your own ability as a sole
means of catching coding errors is irresponsible.  Use the tools.

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