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Subject: Re: Ferret vs Gerbil

Author: Gareth McCaughan

Date: 13:59:56 03/25/02

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On March 25, 2002 at 13:36:29, Sune Fischer wrote:

> I'm sure there is a lot to learn from Gerbil, but I just can't understand
> what is going on in there, it is full of code like this:
>
> pcon->ss.icmSearching = pcm - pste->pcmFirst;
> VCmToSan(pcon, pste, pcm, &san);
> VSanToSz(&san, pcon->ss.aszSearching);
[etc]
> I suspect Bruce is a pro. programmer, I would never think of such
> strange names for my variables :)

Well, he *is* a pro, but what it really shows is that he's
a *Microsoft* programmer. That's "Hungarian notation", where
you encode information about the type of a variable into its
name. Some people like it, some people hate it. Google can
give you lots more information.

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g



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