Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Coding style - a non-issue | Date | 30 Nov 2001 12:41:34 -0800 |
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Followup to: <3C07D669.6C234598@mandrakesoft.com> By author: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > "Paul G. Allen" wrote: > > IMEO, there is but one source as reference for coding style: A book by > > the name of "Code Complete". (Sorry, I can't remember the author and I > > no longer have a copy. Maybe my Brother will chime in here and fill in > > the blanks since he still has his copy.) > > Hungarian notation??? > > That was developed by programmers with apparently no skill to > see/remember how a variable is defined. IMHO in the Linux community > it's widely considered one of the worst coding styles possible. >
Indeed. What can you say for a technique which basically promotes *reducing* abstraction and information hiding?
There is a reason why the Win64 ABI uses the same "int" and "long" as Win32... (both are 32 bits.) They added meaningless abstractions, and didn't add abstractions where they needed to...
-hpa
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