Friday, August 15, 2008

Joel article about Hungarian notation

The Joel on software blog had an article on Hungarian notation. I don't use it, but he has some ideas that might help make use of it in a sensible way in the future. It helped me with an assembly language project at school when I had handles and pointers to deal with, but I'm looking into learning higher level languages now. He describes a rebellion against it starting around the initial .Net release time. He also mentions something written by Raymond Chen about exceptions hindering the safety of code. I've read people use exceptions differently in Python versus C#, but I need to actually find some code to see the difference. I'll need to look into this further later.

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