hungarian notation is evil (was Re: Do I always have to write "self." ?)

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Thu, 18 May 2000 12:59:57 +0100, Francis Glassborow
<francis at robinton.demon.co.uk> declaimed the following in
comp.lang.python:

> In article <3923444A.ABD7182 at san.rr.com>, Courageous
> <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> writes
> >>  Not being able to read the code of a
> >> competent programmer probably indicates your own level of inadequacy.
> >
> >You should have kept this last remark to yourself; suppose to
	<snip>
> 
> Unfortunately one deficiency of the English language is difficulty with
> disambiguating uses of 'your'.  My remark was not intended to apply to
> you or anyone else in particular. However if I have a piece of code that

	As a result, I have a tendency to use the rather stilted
phrasing of: "Not being able to read the code of a competent programmer
probably indicates one's own level of inadequacy".

	Maybe these problems are why I prefer programming... Ambiguity
not allowed <G>

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