May 11, 2005
Hungarian Rehabilitated?

In Making Wrong Code Look Wrong, Joel explains the difference between Systems Hungarian Notation (which is what most people think of when they think of Hungarian Notation, and which is utterly pointless these days, Mark) and Apps Hungarian (which isn't anything like so crap, and might still have some utility from time to time). In fact, I find that I use something similar to Apps Hungarian, though I use suffixes rather than prefixes, and I don't tend to abbreviate.

He's still wrong about exceptions, though, Raymond Chen or no Raymond Chen.

Posted to Software development by Simon Brunning at May 11, 2005 04:04 PM
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Oi! Brunners!
I'm the one at this company trying to get the VB Monkeys do drop the hungarian!

W.T.F. have you done to me ;-)

Posted by: Mark Matthews on May 12, 2005 09:37 AM

I can't help it if I'm always right, Mark. ;-)

Posted by: Simon Brunning on May 12, 2005 10:00 AM

Joel comes across as such a troll on the exceptions thing. Does he really believe what he writes? Guess he must.

Anyway, I ended up being sufficiently annoyed to write about this. Beats rehearsing the same old arguments to people who have some kind of religious conviction that exceptions are dodgy.

http://www.arkestra.demon.co.uk/errors_return_or_ex.html
http://www.arkestra.demon.co.uk/errors_myths.html

Posted by: Matt Morris on May 17, 2005 11:21 AM
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