From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Check for redundancy Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 15:12:27 +0200 Message-ID: <20150627131227.GB23450@tuxteam.de> References: <87zj3mb4jf.fsf@mbork.pl> <87twttcpve.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435410770 643 80.91.229.3 (27 Jun 2015 13:12:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 13:12:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Robert Thorpe Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 27 15:12:50 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8pub-0004fm-NT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 15:12:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35567 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8pua-0004j1-Vw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 09:12:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44412) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8puT-0004iv-7D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 09:12:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8puO-0003CF-NA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 09:12:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:45293 helo=tomasium.tuxteam.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8puO-0003BP-H6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 09:12:36 -0400 Original-Received: from tomas by tomasium.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8puG-0006EO-28; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 15:12:28 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87twttcpve.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105222 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 01:11:49PM +0100, Robert Thorpe wrote: > Marcin Borkowski writes: > > > On 2015-06-26, at 17:01, Emanuel Berg wrote: > > > >> Hungarian notation is a joke. [...] [...] > Hungarian notation was used a lot in early programs using the MS Windows API. AFAIR (yes, I'm an old fart) Hungarian notation was introduced at Microsoft (by Charles Simonyi, no less) because their C compiler was abysmal at type checking. Yes, the API sucked too. Possibly it still sucks (since times Windows 3.1 I haven't had to look at it, thanfully) Regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlWOoTsACgkQBcgs9XrR2kal3wCdEz0M5yIGH4Kyq2KcwA+FoIP6 5R4An1de14dAcDxOEZBhL8X0dF0imZiL =/Vdq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----