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adjHungarian nounNotation verbHurts detThe nounReadability prepOf possYour nounCode.
by DrJokepu 14y ago
adjHungarian nounNotation verbHurts detThe nounReadability prepOf possYour nounCode.
- Terretta 14y agoCute, but those words have meaning properties on their own. Your example is not code, and so doesn't necessarily provide insight into how prefixes may affect groking code. He's talking about naming things (one of the two hard problems), where what the thing is becomes more readable to him with the prefix on the name.
- SQLRockstar 14y agoOnly when you don't use prefixes that are somewhat standard. At the end of the day, however, consistency is key. For example, you used a capital letter to distinguish the start of a word, making it easier for me to understand what you were saying.
- stephengillie 14y agoI've been a hungarianNotation hater for several years. I despise the codecademy sections which require variable names use this convention.
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- kevinh 14y agoI'd largely agree with you with regard to Systems Hungarian Notation, but Apps Hungarian Notation has made my job much easier when talking about whether data is sanitized/unsanitized (or other similar distinctions that fall under the same type) in the scope of a larger program. In that case, it can prevent programmers from mistakenly interpreting the state of the variable, which is much harder to easily glean than the type.